What Happens to the Leadership of the Catholic Church When a Pope Is Sick or Incapacitated?
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 Health Update Issued After Early Kidney Failure Detected
The pontiff's condition is touch-and-go, given his age, fragility and pre-existing lung disease, according to doctors.
What happens to the leadership of the Catholic Church when a pope becomes sick or incapacitated?
The Vatican has detailed laws and rituals to ensure the transfer of power when a pope dies or resigns, but not when he is ...
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Deacons are Called to Selflessness, Men Ordained at Jubilee Mass are Told
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — “Being ordained is not an ascent but a descent, whereby we make ourselves small, lower ourselves and ...
Why Pope Francis wrote his resignation letter 12 YEARS ago
The Pope is suffering from kidney failure, pneumonia and an infection in both lungs after he was admitted to Rome's Gemelli ...
Church-goers in North Hollywood hold mass for Pope Francis' recovery following recent hospitalization
Pope Francis was on the minds of everyone who came to mass at St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church in North Hollywood Sunday ...
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Pope has Respiratory ‘Crisis,’ Doctors Say ‘Prognosis Reserved’
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis experienced “an asthmatic respiratory crisis of prolonged magnitude, which also required ...
Pope's Hospital Chaplain Says 'It's Time for Hope Against All Hope'
The chaplain of the Agostino Gemelli Hospital, where Pope Francis remains hospitalized, has called for faith and prayer, ...