The 88-year-old pope gave a thumbs up and acknowledged the crowd after he was wheeled out onto the balcony overlooking the ...

Pope St. John Paul II could well be called the "apostle of life." He spent his entire pontificate boldly proclaiming the ...

A weak and frail Pope Francis left the hospital Sunday after surviving a five-week, life-threatening bout of pneumonia, ...

Cardinal Marcello Semeraro outlines the journey to canonization. Even from his hospital bed, Pope Francis wanted to make sure ...

The release of the photo a month into his treatment came after dozens of young people gathered under the pontiff’s windows to ...

The release of the photo a month into his treatment came after dozens of young people gathered under ... near the statue of the late Pope John Paul II outside Gemelli Hospital in Rome, where ...

This Via Crucis was celebrated by Pope John Paul II on Good Friday in 1991 ... His betrayer had arranged a signal with them, saying, "the man I shall kiss is the one; arrest him and lead him ...

If the tour's success is measured in the smiles that this man brought to the faces of ordinary Australians, then the Pope's visit achieved a great deal." John Paul II, aged 74, visited Australia on 19 ...

The 88-year-old is expected to be released from the hospital on Sunday after surviving a life-threatening bout of pneumonia.

The Vatican has released the first photograph of the pope in more than a month, showing Pope Francis wearing a purple Lenten ...

The church’s ancient defense of women’s dignity proffered by St. Augustine doesn’t need modern ideologies.

ROME — The Vatican on Sunday released the first photograph of the pope in more than a month ... lack of mobility and the loss of part of a lung as a young man. Still, they are issuing fewer ...