While the Vatican has detailed laws and rituals to ensure the transfer of power when a pope dies or resigns, they do not ...

The Catholic Church has entered a year of sweeping changes in the Roman Curia and cardinalate both at the Vatican and around ...

Since Pope Francis was hospitalized on February 14, the Vatican has provided multiple updates daily on his condition, aiming ...

Late Sunday, doctors reported that blood tests showed “early, slight kidney insufficiency” that was nevertheless under ...

Unclear if Pope Francis is awake after diagnosis of kidney failure - Cardinal says 88-year-old pontiff is ‘probably close to ...

Pope Francis, 88, was resting Monday morning, his 10th day at the hospital for a complex lung infection that led to the early ...

Pope Francis woke up and is continuing his therapies on Monday after a quiet night, on the 10th day of his hospital admission for a complex lung infection that has provoked the early stages of kidney ...

The 88-year-old pontiff, the leader of the worldwide Catholic Church since 2013, was hospitalised on February 14 with ...

Pope Francis’s condition remained “critical” the evening of Feb. 23, his doctors said, with blood tests showing “initial, ...