As Pope Francis remains critically ill, students and faculty at the University of Dallas are praying for his healing.

Many Catholics around the world and even here at home are praying for Pope Francis. Many are wishing him a speedy recovery ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis remained in critical condition Monday but showed slight improvement in laboratory tests and resumed ...

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

The pope has suffered from pneumonia in both lungs and experienced a “long asthmatic respiratory crisis” over the weekend.

While the Vatican has detailed laws and rituals to ensure the transfer of power when a pope dies or resigns, they do not ...

The Vatican says Pope Francis remains in critical condition and blood tests show early kidney failure but he remains alert ...

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

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

ROME and LONDON -- Pope Francis was "resting" on Monday morning after spending his 10th night in the hospital, the Vatican ...

The Vatican No. 2, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, will lead the first prayer Monday. Francis, who has double pneumonia and is in ...