Catholics in our neighborhoods say they've been praying for Pope Francis for 10 days after he was hospitalized and later ...

The Vatican says Pope Francis remains in critical condition but has shown slight improvement in laboratory tests. He has resumed some work activities, including calling a parish in Gaza City ...

The group gathered for a Monday mass and a special word of encouragement from the new archbishop of Milwaukee, Jeffrey Grob.

Thousands of people gathered in St. Peter’s Square to pray for an ailing Pope Francis, expressing sorrow for his suffering, ...

The public has been urged to avoid spreading false and unverified information about the health condition of Pope Francis, who is undergoing treatment for double pneumonia. This is the appeal of a Rome ...

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

The wet black cobblestones shone from the bright lights illuminating the fountains and the front of the square where Pope Francis normally sits for his Wednesday general audiences. An image of Mater ...

The pope has suffered from pneumonia in both lungs and experienced a “long asthmatic respiratory crisis” over the weekend.

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Doctors said there has been a “slight improvement” in Pope Francis’ condition on Monday (Feb. 24) after ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- "Being ordained is not an ascent but a descent, whereby we make ourselves small, lower ourselves and ...

The Vatican's press office on Monday said the pope's health has shown a slight improvement, and that the monitoring of his kidney failure has not raised any concerns.

A scholar of global Catholicism writes how Francis has opened the church to the outside world in ways no pope had done before ...