Before an empty and rain-covered St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis held Eucharistic adoration and gave an extraordinary urbi ...

Pope Francis, DeBernardo said, “has tried to build a listening church rather than just shutting them out. He’s called for the Church to be inclusive of all people.” The pope’s record on ...

“Nothing will be as scintillating as it was before,” Alberto Melloni, a church historian and the director of the John XXIII Foundation for Religious Sciences in Bologna, said of Francis ...

Francis, at age 88, has led the Catholic Church for 12 years and has occasionally sparked concerns over his health. He has been hospitalized multiple times, including once in July 2021 for a ...

The Catholic Church is also in the middle of a jubilee year, with teams of pilgrims coming to Rome and expecting to see the pope. Francis has a difficult balancing act. He needs to take the time ...

Buckingham Palace announced that the King and Queen's visit to the Holy See has been postponed by mutual agreement in light of medical advice for the leader of the Catholic church. Pope Francis ...

Pope Francis starts new 3-year process for Church reforms Francis, 88, still in hospital for double pneumonia New process indicates pope's desire to continue on VATICAN CITY, March 15 (Reuters ...

Pope Francis’s condition continued to improve Wednesday and he hasn't needed to use the noninvasive mechanical ventilation to help him breathe at night, the Vatican said.The 88-year-old pontiff ...

The Catholic Church is in the middle of a year-long jubilee celebration, an event traditionally held every 25 years. Francis likes to keep people on their toes and will have known that announcing ...

Church officials said Saturday the pope had shown a good response to therapy. ROME and LONDON -- Pope Francis on Sunday spent his 24th consecutive day in the hospital receiving therapy and getting ...

The Vatican said Monday evening that Pope Francis had suffered "two episodes ... but it was of particular concern for the leader of the Catholic Church. This is the pope's fourth hospitalization ...

On Thursday, at an informational meeting about St. John Vianney’s future, many members voiced their concerns in the ongoing fight to keep the church open.