Christian hope is not optimism or wishful thinking. Hope is a theological virtue, essential to our faith, pointing us toward ...

Francis, 88, had remained in critical condition throughout the weekend after severe breathing difficulties were reported.

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

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

The Pan-Ukrainian Day of Prayer included a Mass for peace at St. John Lateran Basilica, presided over by Cardinal Baldassarre ...

A group of nuns, priests and students from a Catholic university gathered outside the Gemelli Hospital in Rome on Monday to ...

Upon the resignation or death of a pope, a group of clergy members known as the College of Cardinals would be called to ...

‘My heart really hurts a lot,’ Ukrainian archbishop says of thousands believed to be somewhere in Russia.

Pope Francis, 88, has been in critical condition since the weekend but showed improvement and resumed some work Monday, the ...

In the Catholic Church’s Jubilee Year of Hope, much of the energy is being centered on Pope Francis's health.

Pope Francis' "critical clinical condition" has shown a "slight improvement," the Vatican said on Monday, as the 88-year-old pontiff remains hospitalized following a pneumonia diagnosis."In view of ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis woke up and was continuing his therapies Monday after a quiet night, on the 10th day of his ...