Over the weekend, the Vatican announced serious complications in the recovery of Pope Francis. The 88-year-old pontiff, who ...

Pope Francis, 88, is fully aware of his health limitations but is "passionate" about serving until his death, one expert says ...

Pope Emeritus Benedict stepped down from the papacy, making him the first one to take such a step in six centuries. This ...

And the postulator of St. John Paul II's sainthood cause, Msgr. Slawomir Oder, in 2010 published the letters Pope John Paul ...

A secret meeting, and echoes of Benedict’s exit, have heightened talk that Francis could resign, too. But the possibility is ...

Concerns over Pope Francis' health have mounted in recent years as have questions about his succession. Here's what we know.

A scholar of global Catholicism writes how Francis has opened the church to the outside world in ways no pope had done before ...

Concerns over Pope Francis' health have mounted in recent years as have questions about his succession. Here's what we know.

Pope Francis has transformed the church from an institution in which a few called the shots to a church of the people of God.

Pope Francis revealed during a 2022 interview that he signed a letter of resignation to be used in case of health issues ...

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 ...