A group has launched a database aimed at vetting the responses of Roman Catholic cardinals to claims of sexual abuse in the ...

After five weeks of hospitalization with pneumonia, including moments where he came close to death, Pope Francis is back at ...

Questions and answers about the Pope’s situation remain one month into his hospital stay and given the precedent of Benedict ...

Discussions of succession scenarios have been accelerated by the pontiff’s bout with double pneumonia and warnings that he ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis marked the 12th anniversary of his papacy Thursday with increasingly positive medical updates four weeks into his hospitalization for double pneumonia. The pope spent another ...

He will not be here at the Vatican for that. It was March 13, 2013 when *** fluff of white smoke came out of the Sistine Chapel behind me, announcing that the conclave had chosen *** pope.

ROME -- Pope Francis has begun his 28th consecutive day in hospital on the 12th anniversary of when he was elected pope in 2013 following five ballots in a papal conclave. While no events are ...

The former Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected on the fifth ballot of the 2013 conclave, which was called after Pope Benedict XVI resigned. While Francis has praised Benedict’s humility ...