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Over the weekend, the Vatican announced serious complications in the recovery of Pope Francis. The 88-year-old pontiff, who ...

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.

Before he was hospitalized for double pneumonia, Pope Francis was battling firm resistance from some of his own cardinals ...

Despite his hospitalization, the pope has maintained a degree of governance and authorized the appointment of four new ...

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

A special meeting of Cardinals has reportedly been scheduled, though the Vatican denies that it is linked to any announcement ...

Pope Francis is continuing his slow recovery from double pneumonia and beating back speculation of an imminent death, ...

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

A date for the canonization of Dr. José Gregorio Hernández, who died in 1919, has not been set. CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A ...