VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- "Being ordained is not an ascent but a descent, whereby we make ourselves small, lower ourselves and ...

According to U.N. data, more than 12,600 civilians have died in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, including more than 2,400 ...

Pope Francis remained in critical condition Monday but showed slight improvement in laboratory tests and resumed some work ...

The Vatican press office said there were "no episodes of asthmatic respiratory crisis" on Monday, and some laboratory tests ...

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

The pope has begun working again after he showed slight improvement days after initially being listed in critical condition.

A scholar of global Catholicism writes how Francis has opened the church to the outside world in ways no pope had done before ...

The Vatican says Pope Francis remains in critical condition but has showed slight improvement in laboratory tests. He has resumed some work activities, including calling a parish in Gaza City that he ...

Japan and its allied Philippines agreed to a "strategic dialogue" as a means to bolster defense tech and equipment ...

The Vatican says Pope Francis remains in critical condition but has showed slight improvement in laboratory tests.

The Pope was admitted to Gemelli Hospital on Feb. 14 after struggling for several days with bronchitis. Over the weekend the ...

The 88-year-old pontiff is still receiving oxygen therapy through his nose, though at a slightly reduced flow and ...