Time-honored rituals, drafted and refined over centuries, allow for ritual mourning and provide order at a dramatic moment of ...
The pontiff's condition is touch-and-go, given his age, fragility and pre-existing lung disease, according to doctors.
The D.C. region is home to hundreds of thousands of people of the Catholic faith, many of them saying extra prayers for the ...
Pope Francis spends “a peaceful night” at Rome‘s Gemelli Hospital and has breakfast while sitting in an armchair on Thursday ...
The Vatican has detailed laws and rituals to ensure the transfer of power when a pope dies or resigns, but not when he is ...
The Vatican No. 2, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, will lead the first prayer Monday. Francis, who has double pneumonia and is in ...
His age and prolonged illness have raised questions about whether he might resign, and revived interest about how papal power ...
Catholic cardinals gathered in Rome will offer a nightly rosary for Pope Francis as the pontiff remains hospitalized in ...