For the fourth Sunday in a row, the pope will not appear for his weekly noon blessing, though the Vatican planned to ...

Cardinal Blase Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago, and Chicago-born Cardinals Robert Prevost and Wilton Gregory would be part ...

Pope Francis was hospitalized on Feb. 14 after suffering a bout of bronchitis for weeks and after increasingly finding it ...

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

The 88-year-old pope, who has chronic lung disease and had part of one lung removed as a young man, has remained stable, with ...

With Pope Francis entering his fourth week in hospital, those working in the Apostolic Palace are grappling with the ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — In the first Friday prayers of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, about 90,000 Palestinians prayed at the ...

People gathered for communal prayers in the shattered concrete husk of Gaza City's Imam Shafi’i Mosque during the first ...

Christian communities in the West Bank, Gaza, and Jerusalem say the situation for them has worsened under the current ...

Pope Francis "had a tranquil night and woke shortly after 8 a.m.," the Vatican said, coming a day after he made his first ...

Anxious waiting mixed with disturbing medical jargon — anyone who has sat bedside with a loved one can relate.

For the faithful who have descended on Rome for an event that comes every 25 years, the absence of the pope has been ...