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

The Vatican on Monday announced the start of nighttime prayers for the health of Pope Francis in St. Peter's Square, and ...

Pope Francis remained in critical condition as the Vatican called senior church officials in Rome to a special saying of the ...

A scholar of global Catholicism writes how Francis has opened the church to the outside world in ways no pope had done before ...

Pope Francis is still critically ill as he battles double pneumonia, but his condition has shown a "slight improvement", the ...

Pope Francis woke up and was continuing his therapies Monday after a quiet night, on the 10th day of his hospitalization for ...

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

Matt Campuzano, a 10-year-old from Marple, Pennsylvania, is looking ahead to his spring basketball season and keeping Pope ...