Pope Francis said previously that he might retire if facing extreme health issues. The Vatican reported that his condition is ...

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

Pope Francis, who has been hospitalised for two weeks battling double pneumonia, has spent another peaceful night and is now ...

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

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico has sent drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, who was behind the killing of a U.S. DEA agent in 1985, to ...

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

Cardinal Baldassare Reina led the daily vigil Thursday in St. Peter’s Square to pray for Pope Francis. The pope continued to improve from double pneumonia, the Vatican said, though doctors said he ...

Pope Francis has transformed the church from an institution in which a few called the shots to a church of the people of God.

Gandhi’s Scant Garb Bars Audience with Pope.” So read the headline of a New York Times report, from December 13, 1931, that ...

The Vatican has set in motion nightly prayers for Pope Francis in the hope that he might recover and get back to leading the ...