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

Every year on Feb. 22, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of the Chair of St. Peter, a tradition that dates back more ...

Holy Hours are bring held in Rome’s Gemelli Hospital where Pope Francis is being treated as well as at other places ...

The Vatican has set in motion nightly prayers for Pope Francis in the hope that he might recover and get back to leading the ...

Pope Francis’s battle with double pneumonia is the most serious health complication the pontiff has suffered from since ...

and the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls. A fifth door will also be located at a prison. Since many cannot travel to Rome for a pilgrimage, bishops worldwide designated their cathedrals and ...

Pope Francis is in critical condition with early kidney failure. Many people around the world and here at home are praying ...

Pope Francis remained in critical condition and blood tests showed kidney insufficiency but, according to the Vatican, he ...

Pope Francis arrives at the Basilica of Saint John Lateran in Rome on Oct ... leaving flowers and notes at a statue of the late Pope John Paul II. “I am very, very sad,” said Elvira Romana, ...

She was particularly fond of former pope St. John Paul II but said that Francis ... “being there in his home” in the monumental basilica. AP videojournalist Paolo Santalucia in Rome ...