The Vatican has detailed laws and rituals to ensure the transfer of power when a pope dies or resigns, but not when he is ...
The changes Francis brought to the papacy were more than skin deep. He opened the church to the outside world in ways none of ...
And the postulator of St. John Paul II's sainthood cause, Msgr. Slawomir Oder, in 2010 published the letters Pope John Paul ...
Over the weekend, the Vatican announced serious complications in the recovery of Pope Francis. The 88-year-old pontiff, who ...
Gandhi’s Scant Garb Bars Audience with Pope.” So read the headline of a New York Times report, from December 13, 1931, that ...
Cardinals, according to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), are bishops and Vatican officials from all ...
As Pope Francis remains in critical condition fighting a complex respiratory infection and double pneumonia, world and ...
The eyes of millions around the world are on Pope Francis who is reported to be in critical condition.
In the District, crowds have been gathering at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception to pray for ...
While the Vatican has detailed laws and rituals to ensure the transfer of power when a pope dies or resigns, they do not ...
A scholar of global Catholicism writes how Francis has opened the church to the outside world in ways no pope had done before ...
The faithful continue to gather at St. Peter's Square and churches around Rome to pray for the health of the pontiff.