The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis couldn't celebrate Ash Wednesday and the start of Lent outside the hospital.

For Catholics around the world, this is a special year, a “Jubilee Year,” as declared by Pope Francis. Every 25 years, the ...

If you’re having church problems, don’t blame God’s Son, I got 95 theses, but the Pope ain’t one,” Assistant Professor of ...

Although 30 million Christian pilgrims will flock to Rome’s for its Catholic Jubilee, visitors can avoid feeling overwhelmed ...

ROME—Pope Francis was resting Thursday after a peaceful night during his third week of hospital treatment for double pneumonia, the Vatican said. The pope has been sleeping with a non-invasive ...

The Vatican houses the central government of the Catholic Church and is also an independent city-state. The pope is both the ...

Pope Francis was "resting" Thursday after a peaceful night, the Vatican said as the 88-year-old nears three weeks in hospital ...

Vatican City, the world's smallest country, hasn't seen a birth in 96 years due to its unique population of celibate clergy ...

Many Catholics recall similar vigils held in St. Peter’s Square when Pope John Paul II was hospitalized in the final days of ...

Clutching a bouquet of yellow roses, 79-year-old Carmela Vittoria Mancuso makes her way to Rome's Gemelli hospital each ...

A 900-year-old book found in the Vatican Secret Archives has an eerie link to Pope Francis health and claims to predict the ...