The Vatican, though, made alternative plans for Ash Wednesday next week, making clear Francis still had a long road ahead.

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

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico has sent drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, who was behind the killing of a U.S. DEA agent in 1985, to ...

The Vatican says Pope Francis has continued making decisions and is improving, but his two-week hospital stay poses ...

Cardinal Baldassare Reina led the daily vigil Thursday in St. Peter’s Square to pray for Pope Francis. The pope continued to improve from double pneumonia, the Vatican said, though doctors said he ...

Despite his hospitalization, the pope has maintained a degree of governance and authorized the appointment of four new ...

Hundreds gather to pray for Pope Francis, who is showing slight improvement in tests Thursday, according to the Vatican.

Kansas City Chiefs' three-time Super Bowl champion Harrison Butker dropped by the White House to visit President Donald Trump on Thursday.

Pope Francis has transformed the church from an institution in which a few called the shots to a church of the people of God.

Pope Francis, who is being treated in hospital for double pneumonia, slept well overnight and is resting, the Vatican said in ...