Pope Francis is continuing his recovery from pneumonia. That is after doctors reported a slight improvement in his condition, ...

Thousands of people gathered in St. Peter's Square to pray for an ailing Pope Francis, expressing sorrow for his suffering, ...

Time-honored rituals, drafted and refined over centuries, allow time for mourning and provide order at a dramatic moment of ...

Pope Francis, head of the Roman Catholic Church, has held his title for 12 years. What to know about the Jesuit.

While the Vatican has detailed laws and rituals to ensure the transfer of power when a pope dies or resigns, they do not ...

The Vatican No. 2, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, will lead the first prayer Monday. Francis, who has double pneumonia and is in ...

Pope Francis' doctors "are prudently maintaining their cautious prognosis" as the pontiff's condition of respiratory and ...

A scholar of global Catholicism writes how Francis has opened the church to the outside world in ways no pope had done before ...

Pope Francis was on the minds of everyone who came to mass at St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church in North Hollywood Sunday ...