Pope Francis fell Thursday and hurt his right arm, the Vatican said, just weeks after another apparent fall resulted in a bad ...

The pope, who now often uses a wheelchair due to knee and back pain, says: “The Church is governed using the head and the heart, not the legs.” Francis, originally from Argentina and the first ...

French Bishop Dominique Rey said he was recently informed by the nuncio, the pope’s ambassador in France, that Pope Francis wanted him to submit his resignation.

Bishop Dominique Rey of Fréjus-Toulon has retired from his diocese aged 72, after Pope Francis asked for his resignation ...

The Autobiography," the pope reflects on his childhood, vocation, his age and shares an encouraging message of a hope that ...

Cardinal Robert McElroy will succeed Cardinal Wilton Gregory as the archbishop of Washington, Pope Francis announced Monday after Gregory notified church leadership of his resignation and ...

(photo: Claude Truong-Ngoc via Wikimedia / (CC BY-SA 3.0)) Hannah Brockhaus/CNA Vatican January 7, 2025 Pope Francis accepted Tuesday the early resignation of French Bishop Dominique Rey of ...

Pope Francis, who turned 88 last month and asked an aide to read a major speech last week due to a cold, says in a new book that he feels healthy and has no plans to resign as leader of the global ...