Following an ancient Roman tradition revived by St. John XXIII, the pope typically begins the Ash Wednesday “stational” liturgy at Sant’Anselmo Church, then leads a penitential procession to ...

“Pope Francis had a calm night and is resting,” the Vatican announced in a very brief statement published in the early morning, February 26. Francis is suffering from double pneumonia and has ...

For nearly two weeks, Pope Francis has been outside Vatican territory ... the Vatican continued to function with an increasingly frail St. John Paul II, who exposed his suffering and limitations ...

Priests should stop pushing deacons off to the side Other deacons interpret Pope Francis’ stance as reflecting a “classical orientation” in continuity with the pontificate of St. John Paul II.

From three Western directors, How the West Was Won is a five-segment masterpiece about a frontier family experiencing key ...

Despite his confinement to his hospital room, where he is being treated for double pneumonia, Pope Francis delivered ... from more than 13 years of civil war but is now under new rulers.

Sixty years ago today, civil rights leader John Lewis led hundreds of voting rights activists over the Edmund Pettus Bridge marching from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights. Alabama state ...

But even Vatican officials had been clamoring to hear his voice, saying the pope’s calls for peace are particularly needed at a time of such global conflict and war. More than any pope before ...

In this photo provided by Dan Donaldson, Dana Klabenes, the city clerk in Neligh, Neb., holds her hand under a photo of former Mayor Fred Benning, a World War I veteran who is being honored by having ...

Nigel Farage hit back at Rupert Lowe as Reform UK descended into civil war today. He insisted Reform is not a "protest party" and swiped that Mr Lowe would not have had a "cat's chance in hell" of ...

John Hill is the Investigations Editor at Honolulu Civil Beat. He meandered back and forth across the U.S. for two-plus decades as a newspaper reporter — with stops in Northern California ...

The pope was wounded by gunshots in his abdomen and hand.June 20-Aug. 14, 1981 — 55 daysIn his longest hospitalization, John Paul underwent a minor surgical operation and was then treated for a ...