Despite his hospitalization, the pope has maintained a degree of governance and authorized the appointment of four new ...
The Vatican says Pope Francis has continued making decisions and is improving, but his two-week hospital stay poses ...
People of the Catholic faith around the world are lighting candles and praying for the health of Pope Francis while 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.
Time-honored rituals, drafted and refined over centuries, allow time for mourning and provide order at a dramatic moment of ...
The Vatican has laws to ensure the transfer of power when a pope dies or resigns, but they don't apply if he is sick.
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 has detailed laws and rituals to ensure the transfer of power when a pope dies or resigns, but not when he is ...
Thousands of people gathered in St. Peter's Square on a chilly, rainy evening to pray for an ailing Pope Francis.