The 88-year-old pope, who has chronic lung disease and had part of one lung removed as a young man, woke up after sleeping ...

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Rome — Just before breaking the Ramadan fast on Sunday evening, Hasan Zaheda played basketball with his son in the tiny ...

TORVAIANICA, Italy — Moira Camila Garnica and a group of fellow migrant transgender women have been gathering at their parish ...

The pope's health was the prime focus of the Mass, celebrated by Cardinal Christophe Pierre, the Vatican nuncio to the United ...

The theme of the retreat, which will take place from the evening of March 9 through the morning of March 14, is “The Hope of ...

Just outside the hospital, hundreds of the faithful with their own stories stop to pray every day at the feet of the statue ...

Catholic faithful in Rome and the Vatican City prayed for Pope Francis' recovery on Tuesday, after he stabilized following ...

After Pope Francis experienced one of his worst days since entering the hospital, hundreds of faithful from around the world ...

The Vatican said that Monday’s two crises were caused by a significant accumulation of mucus in his bronchial tubes.

Time-honored rituals, drafted and refined over centuries, allow time for mourning and provide order at a dramatic moment of ...