While the Vatican has detailed laws and rituals to ensure the transfer of power when a pope dies or resigns, they do not ...

Those were the words projected onto Buenos Aires’ most iconic monument, the Obelisco, over the weekend as Catholics from ...

As the pope enters his second week in a Rome hospital with a lung infection, his physicians said his condition was critical ...

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The pope looms so large in everyday Italian life that there are lots of expressions that make light of even a dark event like ...

Pope Francis has been known for his down-to-earth leadership, support of marginalized communities and interreligious dialogue ...

Cardinals, according to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), are bishops and Vatican officials from all ...

The Vatican says Pope Francis has developed pneumonia in both his lungs, after new tests showed a further complication in the ...

The update comes after the Pope was said to be in a critical condition and was showing an "initial, mild" kidney problem - ...

The Vatican described his condition as critical for the first time on Saturday, reporting that the 88-year-old Francis needed ...

The update to Francis’s condition came Sunday in the written text of his regular Angelus prayer after he had been listed as ...