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.
Yesterday the Vatican issued a more positive health update on Pope Francis than in recent days, as they said there has been a ...
Pope Francis is in a critical condition at Rome's Gemelli Hospital, raising concerns about the Vatican's leadership and the ...
While the Vatican has detailed laws and rituals to ensure the transfer of power when a pope dies or resigns, they do not ...
Many who know him said that Francis, driven by a sense of mission and a discipline born of his early training, essentially ...
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, will lead a public recitation of the rosary at 9 p.m. Feb. 24 in St.
Pope Francis woke up and was continuing his therapies Monday after a quiet night, on the 10th day of his hospitalization for ...
A scholar of global Catholicism writes how Francis has opened the church to the outside world in ways no pope had done before ...
Over the past century, Catholic leaders have wrestled with how much to embrace new forms of communication technology.
Cardinals, according to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), are bishops and Vatican officials from all ...
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.