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

Catholic cardinals gathered in Rome will offer a nightly rosary for Pope Francis as the pontiff remains hospitalized in ...

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

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

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

A legislative gap in the Vatican's laws leaves Pope Francis in charge despite his severe illness. An initiative to rectify ...

Pope Francis remained in critical condition as the Vatican called senior church officials in Rome to a special saying of the ...

As Pope Francis remains critically ill, students and faculty at the University of Dallas are praying for his healing.

Pope Francis remained in critical condition Monday but showed slight improvement and resumed some work activities ...

Catholics around the world including at Our Lady of the Assumption Parish in Carmichael are praying for Pope Francis as he ...

You can get in touch with Jesus by emailing [email protected] The chaplain of the Agostino Gemelli Hospital, where Pope ...