The changes Francis brought to the papacy were more than skin deep. He opened the church to the outside world in ways none of ...

For centuries, one of the biggest taboos at the Vatican was openly discussing the pope's health. As leader of the world's 1.4 ...

Hospitalized in critical condition with double pneumonia, Pope Francis was well enough to meet with the Vatican secretary of ...

What happens when a pope is incapacitated? Is he still pope? Pope Francis remains hospitalized in critical condition with a ...

Cardinal Farrell, Dallas' former bishop, oversees Vatican affairs as Camerlengo following Pope Francis' health crisis.

A Rome-based Filipino priest has urged the public to avoid spreading false and unverified information about the health ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis, hospitalized in critical condition with double pneumonia, was well enough to meet with the Vatican ...

Thousands of people gathered in St. Peter's Square to pray for an ailing Pope Francis, expressing sorrow for his suffering, hope for his recovery and gratitude for his efforts to steer the Catholic ...

While attending St. Carthage School in his native Chicago as a sixth grader in 1958, Wilton Gregory was inspired to become ...

Pope Francis' condition remains critical after developing pneumonia in both lungs earlier this month, but the Vatican said he ...

MOSCOW, February 25. /TASS/. Archbishop Pavel Pezzi, the head of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Russia (CCER), has called on believers to pray for Pope Francis.