Francis, who has been pope since 2013, is originally from Argentina and is the first Catholic pontiff from the Americas. On Tuesday evening, many in Rome’s Argentinian community gathered at the Our ...

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

The mass followed a similar service on Tuesday evening at the church of the Argentine community in Rome, reflecting the ...

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

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 ...

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.

Pope Francis entered the hospital for treatment of bronchitis on Feb. 14. Almost two weeks later, doctors say the pope — who contracted a case of double pneumonia while at Romes ...

People in Rome and the Vatican are relying on their faith as they cope with the daily anxiety waiting to hear about the ...