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.
A scholar of global Catholicism writes how Francis has opened the church to the outside world in ways no pope had done before ...
As Pope Francis remains critically ill, students and faculty at the University of Dallas are praying for his healing.
While the Vatican has detailed laws and rituals to ensure the transfer of power when a pope dies or resigns, they do not ...
And there are no specific norms outlining what happens to the leadership of the Catholic Church if a pope becomes totally incapacitated. As a result, even though Pope Francis remains ...
Over the past century, Catholic leaders have wrestled with how much to embrace new forms of communication technology.
And there are no specific norms outlining what happens to the leadership of the Catholic Church if a pope becomes totally incapacitated. As a result, even though Pope Francis remains ...
The pope has suffered from pneumonia in both lungs and experienced a “long asthmatic respiratory crisis” over the weekend.