The Vatican has laws to ensure the transfer of power when a pope dies or resigns, but they don't apply if he is sick.
Pope Francis is in a critical condition at Rome's Gemelli Hospital, raising concerns about the Vatican's leadership and the ...
Pope Francis is still receiving supplemental oxygen, and the Vatican said he received the Eucharist Monday morning and resumed working in the afternoon.
While the Vatican has detailed laws and rituals to ensure the transfer of power when a pope dies or resigns, they do not ...
Many who know him said that Francis, driven by a sense of mission and a discipline born of his early training, essentially ...
Over the past century, Catholic leaders have wrestled with how much to embrace new forms of communication technology.
Pope Francis woke up and was continuing his therapies Monday after a quiet night, on the 10th day of his hospitalization for ...
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, will lead a public recitation of the rosary at 9 p.m. Feb. 24 in St.
A scholar of global Catholicism writes how Francis has opened the church to the outside world in ways no pope had done before ...
Cardinals, according to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), are bishops and Vatican officials from all ...
Upon the resignation or death of a pope, a group of clergy members known as the College of Cardinals would be called to ...