The Catholic Church is almost 2,000 years old, and over the centuries, the protocol for papal funerals has been codified and ...

Cardinals, according to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), are bishops and Vatican officials from all ...

Pope Francis, 88, continues to remain in hospital after he developed pneumonia in both of his lungs over the weekend, ...

Pope Francis was admitted to Rome’s Gemelli Hospital on Friday, Feb. 14, to undergo testing and treatment for bronchitis, the ...

The Catholic Diocese of Jackson, Mississippi has responded to reports that Pope Francis has shown the onset of double ...

In a Feb. 10 letter, Pope Francis urged the U.S. bishops to stay the course in their support for generous immigration ...

The Vatican said on Wednesday evening that Pope Francis' condition was "stable" despite his pneumonia diagnosis. The blood ...

Francis, who lost part of a lung to a respiratory infection in his youth and has been plagued by ailing health recently, last ...

Pope Francis, despite a worrying bilateral pneumonia diagnosis, is breathing on his own and not experiencing heart problems, ...

The Vatican said on Wednesday evening that Pope Francis' condition was "stable" despite his pneumonia diagnosis. The blood tests evaluated by the pope's medical team showed a "slight improvement," ...

COMMENTARY: A true Catholic cathedral, functioning as God’s divine presence in the world, serves as a summons to ...

Thousands of people gathered Feb. 16 in the small village of Pyin Oo Lwin in Myanmar to pay their final respects to Father Donald Martin Ye Naing Win, a priest who was found stabbed to death in a ...