Pope Francis won't deliver his traditional Sunday noon blessing after doctors ordered he get "absolute rest" following a respiratory infection.

Planning a trip to Italy this year? You’re likely going to have to consider your plans a bit more than in previous years, as this one’s special: it’s the Jubilee Year, a Roman Catholic religious event ...

Italian nun Sister Raffaella Petrini was named Saturday as president of the Vatican City State. That makes her essentially ...

Sister Raffaella Petrini will become the first woman to lead the Vatican City State governorate when she takes office March 1 ...

Pope Francis was hospitalized Friday after a weeklong bout of bronchitis worsened and was receiving drug therapy for a ...

Pope Francis will go into the hospital in Rome for treatment for bronchitis and medical examinations, the Vatican said Friday ...

Pope Francis was being hospitalized Friday for the fourth time since he was elected pope in 2013, after he was diagnosed with ...

Pope Francis warned that the forceful removal of people purely because of their illegal status deprives them of their ...

Thanking members of the military and the police for their service, Pope Francis asked them to be on guard against seeing ...

All three of the retiring or retired prelates tendered their resignations to the Vatican upon their 75th birthdays in ...