While the Vatican has detailed laws and rituals to ensure the transfer of power when a pope dies or resigns, they do not ...

Thousands of people gathered in St. Peter's Square on a chilly, rainy evening to pray for an ailing Pope Francis.

A scholar of global Catholicism writes how Francis has opened the church to the outside world in ways no pope had done before ...

Despite being in the Gemelli hospital in Rome for the past ten days, Pope Francis remains in charge of the Catholic Church ...

Despite nearing a two-week hospitalization, Pope Francis continues to work as he fights pneumonia in both lungs.

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

A Nigerian Catholic priest said if Pope Francis dies, God would give the church another Pope. He said the church is ...

Pope Francis remains critical after severe bronchitis and double pneumonia. As concerns grow, speculation rises over his ...

Pope Francis remained in critical condition as the Vatican called senior church officials in Rome to a special saying of the ...

Pope Francis, hospitalized in critical condition with double pneumonia, was well enough to meet with the Vatican secretary of ...