The pope has been hospitalized for over a week at Rome's Gemelli Hospital in critical condition for a respiratory infection.

Worry over Pope Francis' health has fueled speculation as to who could replace the pontiff if his condition worsens.

Members of the University of Rochester’s Catholic Newman Community broke ground on a new Joseph P. Mack Catholic Center Feb. 24.

Pope Francis remained in critical condition Monday but showed slight improvement and resumed some work activities ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — “Being ordained is not an ascent but a descent, whereby we make ourselves small, lower ourselves and ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis experienced “an asthmatic respiratory crisis of prolonged magnitude, which also required ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has set a date for when it will hear the case over Oklahoma's St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual ...

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, will lead a public recitation of the rosary at 9 p.m. Feb. 24 in St.

Bishop Ronald Hicks wrote St. Mary in Park Forest and St. Boniface in Monee will merge into St. Liborius Catholic Church in ...

The Vatican No. 2, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, will lead the first prayer Monday. Francis, who has double pneumonia and is in ...

Philip Shenon talks about the past seven popes, and how efforts to reform the Church with the Second Vatican Council led to power struggles and doctrinal debates that lasted for decades.

Armed men stabbed a Catholic priest to death while he was alone inside a church last week in the northwest Sagaing region of ...