Cardinal Blase Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago, and Chicago-born Cardinals Robert Prevost and Wilton Gregory would be part ...

Pope Francis has entered his fourth week in the hospital with double pneumonia. Francis has increasingly handed off his ...

"The night was quiet, the pope was resting," the Holy See, the Vatican's press office, said in a brief statement on Sunday morning.

In his absence, the Vatican’s day-to-day operations continued alongside celebrations of its Holy Year, the once-every-quarter ...

The 88-year-old pope has remained stable, with no fever and good oxygen levels in his blood for several days, doctors said.

Time-honored rituals, drafted and refined over centuries, allow time for mourning and provide order at a dramatic moment of ...