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

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

The Vatican, though, made alternative plans for Ash Wednesday next week, making clear Francis still had a long road ahead.

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

Vice President Vance on Friday said that American Catholics focus too much on criticism coming from clergy members, in ...