PopeFrancis has exposed the political "maneuvers" used to sway votes during the two most recent elections of popes, while denying he is planning to reform the process for future conclaves ...
The Vatican confirmed PopeFrancis would preside over the Easter Vigil service on Saturday night, after he decided at the last minute to skip his participation in the Good Friday procession at the ...
Bishop Joseph Strickland did not always have a difficult relationship with PopeFrancis. When Francis became the head of the Catholic Church, Strickland recalls admiring how welcoming the pope ...
PopeFrancis canceled at the last minute his attendance at the Good Friday procession at Rome’s Colosseum, in what the Vatican described as a bid “to preserve his health” ahead of more ...
Rallying from a winter-long bout of respiratory problems, PopeFrancis led some 30,000 people in Easter celebrations Sunday and made a strong appeal for a cease-fire in Gaza and a prisoner swap ...
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — PopeFrancis said in a newly released interview that he backed his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, at the conclave that elected Benedict pope in 2005, despite the efforts ...
Francis, 87, had skipped a Good Friday ceremony to preserve his health. ROME and LONDON -- PopeFrancis on Sunday presided over an Easter Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square and later used his ...
PopeFrancis is head of the worldwide Catholic Church, which has about 1.4 billion adherents. As far as the number of followers is concerned, no other single living leader of any religion or ...
PopeFrancis will be presiding over the Easter Vigil service on Saturday night, just hours after a last minute cancellation saw him miss a Good Friday procession in Rome for health reasons ...