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 ...
Pope Francis "rested well throughout the night" in the hospital, the Vatican says, and even met with Vatican officials to ...
What happens when a pope is incapacitated? Is he still pope? Pope Francis' age and prolonged illness have raised questions ...
Many who know him said that Francis, driven by a sense of mission and a discipline born of his early training, essentially ...
Gandhi’s Scant Garb Bars Audience with Pope.” So read the headline of a New York Times report, from December 13, 1931, that ...
The slight renal insufficiency the pope had in recent days subsided and a CAT scan of the chest showed a normal evolution of ...
The Poor Clare abbess of the Monastery of Santo Cristo de Balaguer in Spain is calling out for criticism a 2018 rule ...
The faithful continue to gather at St. Peter's Square and churches around Rome to pray for the health of the pontiff.
As Pope Francis remains in critical condition fighting a complex respiratory infection and double pneumonia, world and ...
Pope Francis entered the hospital for treatment of bronchitis on Feb. 14. Almost two weeks later, doctors say the pope — who contracted a case of double pneumonia while at Romes ...
As Pope Francis remains in critical condition at Gemelli Hospital in Rome - still in charge of the Vatican and the worldwide ...