The Vatican says the "criticality" of Pope Francis health condition "has subsided for the moment," but he's still ...

Pope Francis’s battle with double pneumonia is the most serious health complication the pontiff has suffered from since ...

Gandhi’s Scant Garb Bars Audience with Pope.” So read the headline of a New York Times report, from December 13, 1931, that ...

The Vatican has detailed laws and rituals to ensure the transfer of power when a pope dies or resigns, but not when he is ...

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

Many who know him said that Francis, driven by a sense of mission and a discipline born of his early training, essentially ...

Pope Francis "rested well throughout the night" in the hospital, the Vatican says, and even met with Vatican officials to ...

The Vatican on Monday announced the start of nighttime prayers for the health of Pope Francis in St. Peter's Square, and ...

Time-honored rituals, drafted and refined over centuries, allow time for mourning and provide order at a dramatic moment of ...

Despite his hospitalization, the pope has maintained a degree of governance and authorized the appointment of four new ...

There are some movies that are more pious, but, I think, less faithful to the drama of Catholicism,' said Vatican expert ...