The Vatican has laws to ensure the transfer of power when a pope dies or resigns, but they don't apply if he is sick.
The terse update comes as Pope Francis remains in critical condition following a respiratory crisis on Saturday that required ...
A lawyer for Luigi Mangione, the man accused of fatally gunning down U.S. health insurance executive Brian Thompson in ...
The 88-year-old pontiff has been hospitalized for more than a week and was given oxygen and a blood transfusion on Saturday.
The Vatican's succession process to elect a new pope is one filled with ancient tradition and custom. Pope Francis has ...
Pope Francis remains hospitalized in Rome as doctors treat a worsening respiratory infection that the Vatican has described ...
Many who know him said that Francis, driven by a sense of mission and a discipline born of his early training, essentially ...
Cardinals, according to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), are bishops and Vatican officials from all ...
As Pope Francis is in critical condition with an asthmatic respiratory crisis, Catholic communities worldwide and in Phoenix ...
Catholics around the world are praying for Pope Francis' good health as the Vatican has reported the pontiff's is in a ...