Gandhi’s Scant Garb Bars Audience with Pope.” So read the headline of a New York Times report, from December 13, 1931, that ...

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

As Pope Francis remains in critical condition fighting a complex respiratory infection and double pneumonia, world and ...

Concerns over Pope Francis' health have mounted in recent years as have questions about his succession. Here's what we know.

People in Rome and the Vatican are relying on their faith as they cope with the daily anxiety waiting to hear about the ...

The slight renal insufficiency the pope had in recent days subsided and a CAT scan of the chest showed a normal evolution of ...

A little-remembered gathering in the 1960s could have stopped the problems which now batter the Church’s reputation, a new ...

Time-honored rituals, drafted and refined over centuries, allow time for 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 ...

Father Gabriel Romanelli was able to speak with Pope Francis on Tuesday despite the fact that the pontiff remains ...

The Vatican reports that Pope Francis, battling double pneumonia and a kidney issue, is showing slight improvement. He is ...

In the District, crowds have been gathering at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception to pray for ...