For the fourth Sunday in a row, the pope will not appear for his weekly noon blessing, though the Vatican planned to ...

Cardinal Blase Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago, and Chicago-born Cardinals Robert Prevost and Wilton Gregory would be part ...

Pope Francis was hospitalized on Feb. 14 after suffering a bout of bronchitis for weeks and after increasingly finding it ...

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

With Pope Francis entering his fourth week in hospital, those working in the Apostolic Palace are grappling with the ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — In the first Friday prayers of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, about 90,000 Palestinians prayed at the ...

People gathered for communal prayers in the shattered concrete husk of Gaza City's Imam Shafi’i Mosque during the first ...

Christian communities in the West Bank, Gaza, and Jerusalem say the situation for them has worsened under the current ...

For the faithful who have descended on Rome for an event that comes every 25 years, the absence of the pope has been ...

The pope spent Wednesday sitting in a chair and participated in the Ash Wednesday blessing ritual from his private apartment on the 10th floor of Gemelli Hospital, the Vatican reported. According to ...

On Ash Wednesday, observant Catholics receive a sign of the cross in ashes on their foreheads, a gesture that underscores human mortality. It is an obligatory day of fasting and abstinence for ...

From the soccer field to the seminary, Pope Francis’ life story is filled with surprising twists and turns. A selective life ...