When it came to the life issues, Pope Saint John Paul II was best known for his powerful 1995 encyclical "Evangelium Vitae" ( ...

Pope Francis says in a letter to an Italian newspaper that his lengthy illness has made clearer to him the absurdity of war ...

The release of the photo a month into his treatment came after dozens of young people gathered under the pontiff’s windows to ...

St. John Paul II, who was hospitalized there multiple times, dubbed it "Vatican III." Gemelli Hospital, where Pope Francis continues to receive treatment this week for a "polymicrobial respiratory ...

Pope Francis’ condition “continues to be stable,” and “the recovery process is slow and requires time for the consolidation ...

St. John Paul II greets Rabbi Elio Toaff in 1986 at Rome’s main synagogue, believed to be the oldest Jewish community in the ...

Pope Francis marked the 12th anniversary of his pontificate Thursday in the hospital — the first pope to do so in modern church history — as he received increasingly positive medical ...

On the occasion of the 12th anniversary of his election to the papacy, Pope Francis received hundreds of drawings, messages, ...

Religious podcasters would do well to study his affirmations of women’s equal dignity.

The pope has emerged as an increasingly lonely moral voice against perilous global trends like nationalism and populism.

Twelve years ago, he appeared from the Loggia of St. Peter's Square with that unusual "good evening" that heralded the style ...

Pope Francis has participated remotely in the Vatican’s spiritual retreat after getting good news from his doctors.