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 remains in critical condition but has showed slight improvement in laboratory tests.

The 88-year-old pontiff is still receiving oxygen therapy through his nose, though at a slightly reduced flow and ...

I’m a historian of the medieval papacy and editor of the forthcoming three volumes of “The Cambridge History of the Papacy.” So it was more or less mandatory for me to see the new movie “Conclave,” ...

The combination of health issues has kept the Pope from performing his public duties, including weekly prayers on Sundays, ...

Francis is being treated for pneumonia, a complex infection and kidney problems that have left him in critical condition. He ...

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

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis experienced “an asthmatic respiratory crisis of prolonged magnitude, which also required ...

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Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, will lead a public recitation of the rosary at 9 p.m. Feb. 24 in St.

Pope Francis is showing a “slight improvement” in his condition and has resumed some of his work activities, according to the ...