The Catholic Church starts its busiest week of the year on Sunday with the countdown to Easter, but Pope Francis remains out ...

A prophecy from a medieval saint seems to suggest that Pope Francis might be the final pope. But then what happens next?

A Vatican spokesman told journalists the pope had wanted to get some air and then decided to extend his time outside of his ...

COMMENTARY: The Council of Nicaea gave Christianity more than a creed — it gave the Church a way to calculate Easter. But ...

Pope Francis made his first public appearance at the Vatican since he was discharged from the hospital on March 23 after a ...

Pope Francis shared that he is experiencing “healing,” specifically “in my soul and my body,” as he reaches the eighth day of ...

The 88-year-old pontiff, who continues to receive oxygen after being struck down with double pneumonia, made a surprise ...

Appearing publicly in street clothes for the first time as pontiff, Pope Francis went into St. Peter’s Basilica to pray and greet the faithful.

In a moving homily read by Archbishop Rino Fisichella, the pontiff described how suffering can become “a place of encounter” ...

Pope Francis stepped out for his first public appearance at the Vatican since being discharged from the hospital in late ...