For centuries, one of the biggest taboos at the Vatican was openly discussing the pope's health. As leader of the world's 1.4 ...

Cardinal Farrell, Dallas' former bishop, oversees Vatican affairs as Camerlengo following Pope Francis' health crisis.

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' condition remains critical after developing pneumonia in both lungs earlier this month, but the Vatican said he ...

Hospitalized in critical condition with double pneumonia, Pope Francis was well enough to meet with the Vatican secretary of ...

What happens when a pope is incapacitated? Is he still pope? Pope Francis remains hospitalized in critical condition with a ...

Pope Francis "rested well" during his 11th night in hospital in Rome, the Holy See said on Tuesday. Despite a slightly ...

While attending St. Carthage School in his native Chicago as a sixth grader in 1958, Wilton Gregory was inspired to become ...

MOSCOW, February 25. /TASS/. Archbishop Pavel Pezzi, the head of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Russia (CCER), has called on believers to pray for Pope Francis.

The previous evening, doctors had said he remained in critical condition with double pneumonia but reported a “slight improvement” in some laboratory results. In the most upbeat bulletin in days, the ...

In an April 2013 homily, Pope Francis said something else worth remembering on this subject: “The Church is not an NGO. It’s ...