Pope Francishas shown a "slight improvement", is alert and got out of bed to eat breakfast on Thursday, the Vatican said, as ...

The Catholic Church is almost 2,000 years old, and over the centuries, the protocol for papal funerals has been codified and ...

The pope is susceptible to lung infections after he developed pleurisy as an adult and had part of a lung removed at age 21.

Pope Francis has been known for his down-to-earth leadership, support of marginalized communities and interreligious dialogue ...

Pope Francis has been diagnosed with double pneumonia after being hospitalised last week. The Vatican said the 88-year-old's ...

Cardinals, according to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), are bishops and Vatican officials from all ...

Every time Pope Francis catches a cold, I get anxious. When he goes to the hospital, I panic. I love Francis and hope he can ...

The process of electing a new pope follows rules and rituals that have been followed, and sometimes tweaked, since the 13th ...

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 method the Catholic Church uses to select their leader has remained virtually unchanged for the last 800 years ...

The group of cardinals who will choose Francis’s successor will face challenges different and greater than conventional or ...