Pope Francis continued his recovery from pneumonia Tuesday as the Vatican set in motion a nightly marathon of prayers from ...
On February 24, prayers for Pope Francis continued at Gemelli Hospital, where the Holy Father remains hospitalized. In the St ...
Over the past century, Catholic leaders have wrestled with how much to embrace new forms of communication technology.
The Vatican has laws to ensure the transfer of power when a pope dies or resigns, but they don't apply if he is sick.
A scholar of global Catholicism writes how Francis has opened the church to the outside world in ways no pope had done before ...
Cardinals, according to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), are bishops and Vatican officials from all ...
While the Vatican has detailed laws and rituals to ensure the transfer of power when a pope dies or resigns, they do not ...
Philip Shenon talks about the past seven popes, and how efforts to reform the Church with the Second Vatican Council led to power struggles and doctrinal debates that lasted for decades.