There has long been a Vatican taboo against openly talking about a conclave when a pope is sick: It’s considered gauche to ...

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’s battle with double pneumonia is the most serious health complication the pontiff has suffered from since ...

The Vatican says Pope Francis has continued making decisions and is improving, but his two-week hospital stay poses ...

And the postulator of St. John Paul II's sainthood cause, Msgr. Slawomir Oder, in 2010 published the letters Pope John Paul ...

Pope Francis entered the hospital for treatment of bronchitis on Feb. 14. Almost two weeks later, doctors say the pope — who ...

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 past week, local and international media have actively covered reports regarding the Pope’s declining health.

Despite his hospital stay, Pope Francis remains in charge of the Catholic Church. But what if his health continues to decline ...

Hundreds of Argentines attended a special mass Monday for their countryman Pope Francis, hospitalized in a critical condition ...

Pope Francis’ hospital stay is raising obvious questions about what happens if he loses consciousness for a prolonged period, ...