Despite his condition, Pope Francis has upheld a tradition he began at the start of the war in Gaza, making nightly calls to ...
Thousands of people gathered in St. Peter's Square on a chilly, rainy evening to pray for an ailing Pope Francis.
Time-honored rituals, drafted and refined over centuries, allow time for mourning and provide order at a dramatic moment of ...
A scholar of global Catholicism writes how Francis has opened the church to the outside world in ways no pope had done before ...
The Vatican says Pope Francis, who is hospitalized in critical condition with double pneumonia, was well enough to meet with ...
Pope Francis "rested well throughout the night" in the hospital, the Vatican says, and even met with Vatican officials to sign several documents linked to sainthood designations.
Pope Francis is continuing his recovery from pneumonia. That is after doctors reported a slight improvement in his condition, ...
Pope Francis is always trying to expand the horizons of the church and engage everyone, Archbishop Jeffrey Grob said, ...
Like his predecessors, Pope Francis was selected using an age-old method -- a system known as the Papal conclave.