The changes Francis brought to the papacy were more than skin deep. He opened the church to the outside world in ways none of ...
Pope Francis "rested well throughout the night" in the hospital, the Vatican says, and even met with Vatican officials to ...
The Vatican has detailed laws and rituals to ensure the transfer of power when a pope dies or resigns, but not when he is ...
Many who know him said that Francis, driven by a sense of mission and a discipline born of his early training, essentially ...
As Pope Francis remains in critical condition at Gemelli Hospital in Rome - still in charge of the Vatican and the worldwide ...
Thousands of people gathered in St. Peter’s Square to pray for an ailing Pope Francis, expressing sorrow for his suffering, ...
The Vatican says Pope Francis, who is hospitalized in critical condition with double pneumonia, was well enough to meet with ...
Though hospitalized in critical condition, Pope Francis was well enough to meet with the Vatican secretary of state to ...
COMMENTARY: However, vigils for popes, like the current one for Pope Francis, have been the exception, not the rule.
Thousands gathered in a rain-soaked St. Peter's Square on Monday night to pray for Pope Francis' health after a more positive update from the Vatican.
A scholar of global Catholicism writes how Francis has opened the church to the outside world in ways no pope had done before ...