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

The Vatican says Pope Francis remains in critical condition but has showed slight improvement in laboratory tests.

The 88-year-old pontiff is still receiving oxygen therapy through his nose, though at a slightly reduced flow and ...

Sequestered cardinals would not tarry in long discussions, especially when they were away from the comfort of their own palaces, allowed only a single attendant and sleeping in simple cells. If they ...

‘My heart really hurts a lot,’ Ukrainian archbishop says of thousands believed to be somewhere in Russia.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — “Being ordained is not an ascent but a descent, whereby we make ourselves small, lower ourselves and ...

Local Catholics are responding to news from the Vatican that the health of Pope Francis has declined to critical condition.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis experienced “an asthmatic respiratory crisis of prolonged magnitude, which also required ...

Colin Farrell won his first SAG award, for his performance in “The Penguin” and also became the first winner ever introduced, ...

Pope Francis, head of the Roman Catholic Church, has held his title for 12 years. What to know about the Jesuit.

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

As Catholics and other people of faith continue to pray for the pope, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the secretary of state for Vatican City, will host a prayer service for Pope Francis on Monday evening.