The Vatican has detailed laws and rituals to ensure the transfer of power when a pope dies or resigns, but not when he is ...

Pope Francis, head of the Roman Catholic Church, has held his title for 12 years. What to know about the Jesuit.

Here’s an interactive map that shows many of the pilgrimage sites that have been designated across the U.S. for the jubilee ...

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

The Pan-Ukrainian Day of Prayer included a Mass for peace at St. John Lateran Basilica, presided over by Cardinal Baldassarre ...

‘My heart really hurts a lot,’ Ukrainian archbishop says of thousands believed to be somewhere in Russia.

Global media outlets, including CNN, CBS and NBC, are getting ready to descend upon Rome and Vatican City following reports ...

Pope Francis is in critical condition with a complex lung infection and anemia, receiving treatment in a Rome hospital.

Christian hope is not optimism or wishful thinking. Hope is a theological virtue, essential to our faith, pointing us toward ...

It comes after an update released yesterday said the Pontiff, 88, remained in a "critical" condition but has not presented ...

Upon the resignation or death of a pope, a group of clergy members known as the College of Cardinals would be called to ...