At the University of San Diego, some Catholic students grew up with Pope Francis as the head of the Catholic Church. They say ...
The pontiff's condition is touch-and-go, given his age, fragility and pre-existing lung disease, according to doctors.
Time-honored rituals, drafted and refined over centuries, allow for ritual mourning and provide order at a dramatic moment of ...
Pope Francis spends “a peaceful night” at Rome‘s Gemelli Hospital and has breakfast while sitting in an armchair on Thursday ...
The Vatican has detailed laws and rituals to ensure the transfer of power when a pope dies or resigns, but not when he is ...
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.
One at a time, Bishop John Dolan called out categories of marriage by length: Couples in their first year, their first five ...
The D.C. region is home to hundreds of thousands of people of the Catholic faith, many of them saying extra prayers for the ...