Over the weekend, the Vatican announced serious complications in the recovery of Pope Francis. The 88-year-old pontiff, who ...
A secret meeting, and echoes of Benedict’s exit, have heightened talk that Francis could resign, too. But the possibility is ...
And the postulator of St. John Paul II's sainthood cause, Msgr. Slawomir Oder, in 2010 published the letters Pope John Paul ...
Pope Francis has transformed the church from an institution in which a few called the shots to a church of the people of God.
A scholar of global Catholicism writes how Francis has opened the church to the outside world in ways no pope had done before ...
The resignation of Pope Benedict XVI has demonstrated the process by which a pope might step down and be replaced.
Pope Francis plans to convene a consistory, which is a meeting of cardinals, at the Vatican. There would be nothing unusual ...
At least 80% of Catholics have expressed a favorable opinion of Pope Francis in 10 of the 15 U.S. surveys in which we have ...