But Francis was also echoing St. Peter’s own recognition of his sinfulness, as he responded to Jesus when he first called him ...

Pope Francis has come down with a serious illness that could potentially force him to resign, but who would succeed him?

Is the pope out of danger? No. Both doors are open. Is he at risk of immediate death? No. The therapy needs time to work,” Sergio Alfieri, a surgeon who has operated on the pope in the past, said ...

ROME — Pope Francis’ complex respiratory infection isn't life-threatening but he's not out of danger, his medical team said ...

Thus, the second forgotten truth: The official teaching that “the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ...

The process of electing a new pope follows rules and rituals that have been followed, and sometimes tweaked, since the 13th ...

Pope Francis, despite a worrying bilateral pneumonia diagnosis, is breathing on his own and not experiencing heart problems, ...

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni has visited Pope Francis in the hospital and says he’s “alert and responsive” and full of good humor despite his pneumonia ...

Vatican officials said that Pope Francis had developed pneumonia in both lungs, further complicating the pontiff's recovery.

COMMENTARY: ‘Hope,’ which is not what it claims to be and is less than it ought to be, nevertheless gives glimpses into how ...

At his introductory press conference in April 2019 on the morning when Pope Francis had named him as the new archbishop of ...

Let us recall that it was in the encyclical Ut unum sint, dedicated to the ecumenical question, that St. John Paul II chose to address ... the essentials: the pope is, first and foremost, the ...