In a final act of compassion and legacy, Pope Francis’ Popemobile is being repurposed into a mobile health unit traveling across Gaza to provide crucial medical...
In global diplomacy, the Pope’s dual role as both spiritual leader of the Catholic Church and head of state of Vatican City creates unique responsibilities and...
Pope Francis’ wooden coffin was carried into St. Peter’s Square on Saturday at the start of a funeral Mass attended by a multitude of mourners, including powerful world...
With no one watching from below his windows to represent the embrace of the outside world on Monday morning, Francis died far more privately.
Pope Francis died at 7:35 am in his apartment at the Santa Marta residence in the Vatican. According to the certificate published by the Vatican, the...
Predicting the outcome of the highly secretive papal conclave is near impossible as cardinals’ positions shift over successive votes and some try to game the system to influence...
As an at-times unwitting star on social media, Pope Francis knew how to exploit the internet to preach the gospel, broadening the Church’s appeal while modernising...
When the Pope dies (or resigns, as in the rare case of Pope Benedict XVI in 2013), the cardinals are summoned to a meeting at the...
The Vatican has now entered an interregnum period known as Sede Vacante—the throne of St. Peter is empty.
The 88-year-old pontiff spent five weeks in hospital with pneumonia in February and March. According to his medical team, the pope came close to death during...
The 88-year-old made his first public appearance on Sunday (Mar 23) from the hospital balcony before being discharged to bless the crowd since being admitted on...
Francis, 88, went to hospital on February 14 with a severe respiratory infection that became the most serious health crisis of his 12-year papacy.
Pope Francis, 88, who has been in hospital since February 14 with pneumonia in both lungs, has been gradually improving and talk has turned to when...
Doctors have said Francis’ condition is touch-and-go, given his age.
“He is not out of danger,” said his personal physician, Dr. Luigi Carbone. “So like all fragile patients I say they are always on the golden...
Pope Francis is suffering from bronchitis but plans to maintain his scheduled appointments in the coming days, the Vatican said on Thursday. The pope, who told...
Pope Francis said in an interview published on Monday that Africans were a “special case” in the opposition of homosexuality by bishops and many other people...
The Holy Father Pope Francis has appointed the Archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Kisumu, Most Rev. Philip A. Anyolo, as Archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese...
VATICAN CITY, July 4 (Reuters) – Pope Francis was admitted to Rome’s Gemelli hospital on Sunday for scheduled intestinal surgery, the Vatican said, the first time...
