Pope Francis is continuing his recovery from pneumonia. That is after doctors reported a slight improvement in his condition, ...
Time-honored rituals, drafted and refined over centuries, allow time for mourning and provide order at a dramatic moment of ...
Pope Francis, head of the Roman Catholic Church, has held his title for 12 years. What to know about the Jesuit.
The Vatican has detailed laws and rituals to ensure the transfer of power when a pope dies or resigns, but not when he is ...
His age and prolonged illness have raised questions about whether he might resign, and revived interest about how papal power ...
A scholar of global Catholicism writes how Francis has opened the church to the outside world in ways no pope had done before ...
On February 24, prayers for Pope Francis continued at Gemelli Hospital, where the Holy Father remains hospitalized. In the St ...
Senior Italian Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco said Tuesday that Pope Francis's current health problems do not warrant talk of him ...