Time-honored rituals, drafted and refined over centuries, allow time for mourning and provide order at a dramatic moment of ...
The combination of health issues has kept the Pope from performing his public duties, including weekly prayers on Sundays, ...
The Vatican No. 2, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, will lead the first prayer Monday. Francis, who has double pneumonia and is in ...
Thousands gathered in a rain-soaked St. Peter's Square on Monday night to pray for Pope Francis' health after a more positive update from the Vatican.
Pope Francis' doctors "are prudently maintaining their cautious prognosis" as the pontiff's condition of respiratory and ...
Pontiff has packed the College of Cardinals – responsible for the papal vote after his death – with men in his own image ...
Pope Francis, 88, was resting Monday morning, his 10th day at the hospital for a complex lung infection that led to the early ...
But as Pope Francis has battled double pneumonia at Rome's Gemelli hospital since February 14, the Vatican has been trying ...