The pope looms so large in everyday Italian life that there are lots of expressions that make light of even a dark event like ...
The Catholic Church is almost 2,000 years old, and over the centuries, the protocol for papal funerals has been codified and ...
While Pope Francis battles pneumonia in hospital, work at the Vatican, headquarters of the 1.4 billion-member Catholic Church ...
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The recent deterioration of his health has led to fears that the Pope may be in the final chapters of his life. He also ...
Pope Francis was admitted to Rome’s Gemelli Hospital on Friday, Feb. 14, to undergo testing and treatment for bronchitis, the ...
Italian nun Sister Raffaella Petrini was named Saturday as president of the Vatican City State. That makes her essentially ...
Updates on Francis’ condition, which was said to be stable on Wednesday, have typically been spare, leaving plenty of room ...
The Vatican said Pope Francis has the "onset of bilateral pneumonia," and that tests, a chest X-ray and the pope's clinical ...
By Christopher Lamb, Antonia Mortensen and Sharon Braithwaite, CNN (CNN) — Pope Francis is showing “slight improvement” after ...
The election of a new pope is a rigorous process involving a series of rituals that unfold in stages. First, there is the ...
The Pope reached out, affectionately ran his fingers through my hair, then shook my hand, his handshake firm, hands warm. “Smile,” said the shutterbug who captured my father grinning, the Pope beaming ...