There has long been a Vatican taboo against openly talking about a conclave when a pope is sick: It’s considered gauche to ...

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

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

With Pope Francis still in critical condition, some may ask what happens when the Holy See becomes sede vacante after the ...

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

In a quiet chapel within Rome’s Gemelli Hospital, a doctor kneels before the Blessed Sacrament in his white coat. The ...

Eleven days after the pope was hospitalized, speculation is mounting and prayers for his recovery verge on a vigil.

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

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

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