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

The Vatican says Pope Francis remains in critical condition but has showed slight improvement in laboratory tests.

Pope Francis has shown "a slight improvement" in his health while ... His condition has concerned the Catholic community so ...

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

The pope has begun working again after he showed slight improvement days after initially being listed in critical condition.

Pope Francis woke up and was continuing his therapies yesterday after a quiet night, on the 10th day of his hospital ...

The Vatican says Pope Francis remains in critical condition but has showed slight improvement in laboratory tests. He has resumed some work activities, including calling a parish in Gaza City that he ...

According to U.N. data, more than 12,600 civilians have died in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, including more than 2,400 ...

Pope Francis remained in critical condition Sunday, the Vatican said. Blood tests show initial, slight insufficiency in his kidney function, but the 88-year-old pontiff remains alert and well-oriented ...