ROME (CNS) — Pope Francis has thanked people for their prayers and many messages of support and affection, said Matteo Bruni, director of the Vatican press office, in a written statement the evening ...

Pope Francis had a restful, peaceful first night at Rome's Gemelli hospital after a successful three-hour abdominal surgery ...

Pope Francis was alert after an abdominal surgery that was performed "without complications" to treat a hernia, the Vatican ...

Pope Francis was scheduled to undergo surgery at Rome's Gemelli hospital to treat a hernia that had developed.

(OSV News) — The destruction of a dam and hydroelectric power plant in a Russian-occupied area of Ukraine marks a “dastardly and diabolical act” that “defies imagination,” Archbishop Borys Gudziak, ...

The Holy Spirit invites the faithful to share in God's love & to make the church a loving home to everyone, Pope Francis said ...

According to Italian news agency ANSA, the pope entered the hospital at 10:40 a.m. for a visit to the hospital’s geriatric ...

A film making its U.S. debut recounts the life of Padre Pio and the movie's star said he "fell in love with Christ" to ...

Washington Nationals pitcher Trevor Williams has criticized with the Los Angeles Dodgers' decision to honor a controversial ...

(OSV News) — “Words fail to fully express the trauma so many experienced yesterday, and the lives crushed because of it,” Bishop Barry C. Knestout of Richmond, Virginia, said in a statement the day ...

The Catholic Church's Synod of Bishops should not be a "parliament for demanding rights," but a journey in the Spirit," Pope ...

For 21 years, flags have been placed on graves in the veterans’ sections at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Rochester for Memorial ...