People in Rome and the Vatican are relying on their faith as they cope with the daily anxiety waiting to hear about the ...

Concerns over Pope Francis' health have mounted in recent years as have questions about his succession. Here's what we know.

Gandhi’s Scant Garb Bars Audience with Pope.” So read the headline of a New York Times report, from December 13, 1931, that ...

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

Concerns over Pope Francis' health have mounted in recent years as have questions about his succession. Here's what we know.

The changes Francis brought to the papacy were more than skin deep. He opened the church to the outside world in ways none of ...

At least 80% of Catholics have expressed a favorable opinion of Pope Francis in 10 of the 15 U.S. surveys in which we have ...

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

The Vatican said Pope Francis remained in critical condition Monday but showed slight improvement in laboratory tests and ...

Pope Francis "rested well throughout the night" in the hospital, the Vatican says, and even met with Vatican officials to ...

What happens when a pope is incapacitated? Is he still pope? Pope Francis remains hospitalized in critical condition with a ...