On Wednesday, doctors said Francis’ kidney failure “has subsided” and a CT scan of his chest “showed a normal progression of ...

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

Pope Francis could be moving toward recovery or death ... for resigning the papacy—Dante differs from the Catholic Church on ...

Father Gabriel Romanelli was able to speak with Pope Francis on Tuesday despite the fact that the pontiff remains ...

Francis, 88, has been in critical condition for several days and he has remained absent from several regular appearances. The ...

The Catholic Church is believed to have recognized more than 10,000 saints. Only 11 have been from the U.S. and none of them have come from Minnesota.

The slight renal insufficiency the pope had in recent days subsided and a CAT scan of the chest showed a normal evolution of ...

A "silent genocide" -- mimicking the Rwandan one of 1994 -- is occurring eastern Congo, said some Catholic Church sources, as ...

Pope Francis has shown a "further, slight improvement" in his medical condition, the Vatican said on Wednesday, in a sign of ...

The Vatican reports that Pope Francis, battling double pneumonia and a kidney issue, is showing slight improvement. He is ...

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

Like his predecessors, Pope Francis was selected using an age-old method -- a system known as the Papal conclave.