Francis, who lost part of a lung to a respiratory infection in his youth and has been plagued by ailing health recently, last ...

Named to lead New York's vast Catholic diocese, Edward Egan was elevated to cardinal by Pope John Paul II in 2001. Look back ...

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Second of three parts Continuing excerpts from National Artist Amado V. Hernandez's novel "Mga Ibong Mandaragit" (The Preying Birds), published by Penguin Southeast Asia, in which he wrote a wonderful ...

Dr. Pelikan takes The Babylonian Captivity of 1520 as the Reformation platform. Ecclesiasticism ... German reformer was willing to keep even the pope if with him he could have the Gospel.

Pope Francis fell after stumbling on an altar step today during a visit to Poland but quickly got back to his feet, without injury. High above the altar in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel ...

Video posted on X shows the individual climbing onto the altar, which is used for major liturgical celebrations presided over by Pope Francis. He’s seen pulling off the altar cloth before being ...

Pope Francis presided over the Jubilee Mass for ... A man desecrated the main altar of St. Peter’s Basilica on Friday by climbing on top of it and throwing six candelabras that were on the ...

The Pope is stable in hospital with a slight fever after he was admitted for bronchitis treatment, the Vatican has said. After daily audiences he was taken to Rome's Gemelli Polyclinic ...