A scholar of global Catholicism writes how Francis has opened the church to the outside world in ways no pope had done before ...
The pontiff's condition is touch-and-go, given his age, fragility and pre-existing lung disease, according to doctors.
Pope Francis has received prayers worldwide while hospitalized with a respiratory illness and mild kidney insufficiency.
Time-honored rituals, drafted and refined over centuries, allow for ritual mourning and provide order at a dramatic moment of ...
The Vatican has laws to ensure the transfer of power when a pope dies or resigns, but they don't apply if he is sick.
The Vatican has detailed laws and rituals to ensure the transfer of power when a pope dies or resigns, but not when he is ...
Pope Francis' doctors "are prudently maintaining their cautious prognosis" as the pontiff's condition of respiratory and ...
When you visit Our Lady's Gifts in Little Italy, it feels like you are in a church. Maybe that's because it used to be one.