Pius IX was a key figure during a period of dramatic change, in which he saw the loss of the Papal States, the unification of Italy, and the proclamation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception.

And yet Francis’ critics often complain that he’s authoritarian, that he takes decisions in a vacuum and without regard to ...

Stable medical situation: the pneumonia is slowly regressing, but the clinical picture remains very complex. For four weeks, ...

Celebrating with a cake with twelve candles, as many as his years of pontificate, the eighty-eight-year-old Pontiff entered ...

Ilo also was on a papal working group organized by a key Vatican office headed ... to be chosen as Francis’ successor for one ...

Interest in papal elections has also surged recently ... the Holy Spirit in electing the new pope," according to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Following the mass, the cardinals ...

ASSISI, Italy — As Pope Francis entered his third week in a hospital battling pneumonia, hundreds of pilgrims continued to make their way to this hilltop town to pray at the tomb of St. Francis, the ...

Pope Francis was hospitalized on Feb. 14, after suffering a bout of bronchitis for weeks and after increasingly finding it ...

According to the United States Council of Catholic Bishops, around 15 to 20 days after a papal vacancy, the cardinals gathered in St. Peter's Basilica for a Mass invoking the guidance of the Holy ...