The Vatican, though, made alternative plans for Ash Wednesday next week, making clear Francis still had a long road ahead.

Pope Francis’s battle with double pneumonia is the most serious health complication the pontiff has suffered from since ...

Noting that some people have described the Synod on Synodality as “a meeting about meetings,” the cardinal said it is ...

Stan Chu Ilo, a Catholic priest and a research professor of African studies and world Catholicism, examines the milestones in ...

Time-honored rituals, drafted and refined over centuries, allow time for mourning and provide order at a dramatic moment of ...

The Vatican press office has released a statement saying the pope had a peaceful evening of rest in hospital and is ...

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

The Vatican says Pope Francis has continued making decisions and is improving, but his two-week hospital stay poses ...

The Vatican has not announced Pope Francis is resigning, contrary to online claims. Further, his successor would be elected ...