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

Those working in the Apostolic Palace are grappling with the continuing uncertainty and anxiety over the pope’s health. The ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — In the first Friday prayers of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, about 90,000 Palestinians prayed at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City under tight security by ...

Pope Francis "had a tranquil night and woke shortly after 8 a.m.," the Vatican said, coming a day after he made his first ...

For the faithful who have descended on Rome for an event that comes every 25 years, the absence of the pope has been ...

The recorded message was the first released by the Vatican since Pope Francis was hospitalized with a respiratory illness on ...

The pope spent Wednesday sitting in a chair and participated in the Ash Wednesday blessing ritual from his private apartment on the 10th floor of Gemelli Hospital, the Vatican reported. According to ...

Pope Francis celebrated the start of the Lent religious season from his hospital suite yesterday, the 88-year-old’s condition ...

On Ash Wednesday, observant Catholics receive a sign of the cross in ashes on their foreheads, a gesture that underscores ...

Pope Francis is resting after sleeping through the night with a ventilation mask as he undergoes hospital treatment for ...

As he approaches three weeks in the hospital, Pope Francis Wednesday had a good day, calling the Catholic parish in Gaza and ...