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

The pope looms so large in everyday Italian life that there are lots of expressions that make light of even a dark event like ...

As speculation about Pope Francis' health rises, the Vatican begins preparations for a potential papal funeral, following ...

I notice that the Feast of “the Chair of St. Peter” is coming up. What is that all about? A: Yes, each year the Church ...

Pope Francis has been diagnosed with double pneumonia after being hospitalised last week. The Vatican said the 88-year-old's ...

The Catholic Church is almost 2,000 years old, and over the centuries, the protocol for papal funerals has been codified and ...

ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni visited Pope Francis in the hospital Wednesday and reported he was “alert and ...

With more than 900    churches, hundreds of palazzos, 10 World Heritage Sites and 280 fountains (the Trevi alone sees some 700,000 euros in coin donations every year), Rome can be an overwhelming city ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Artists and cultural figures must be “custodians of the beatitudes,” embracing their vocation to create ...

Cardinals, according to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), are bishops and Vatican officials from all ...

The heart holds, the energy is still enviable like the fiber which is steel. Yet the eighty-eight-year-old Pope Francis has begun to suffer from a series of significant health problems, partly due ...