Blessed José Gregorio Hernández is known at the ‘doctor of the poor.’ Also to be canonized: Blessed Bartolo Longo. Additional ...
The reason for the visit was announced today: The Holy Father authorized the decrees designating five persons as servants of ...
The audience, which occurred Monday, signaled that the machinery of the Vatican was still grinding on and looking ahead even with Francis, 88, hospitalized and doctors warning his prognosis is guarded ...
Eleven days after the pope was hospitalized, speculation is mounting and prayers for his recovery verge on a vigil.
Thousands of people have gathered in St. Peter’s Square to pray for an ailing Pope Francis, expressing sorrow for his ...
A scholar of global Catholicism writes how Francis has opened the church to the outside world in ways no pope had done before ...
On Monday evening, February 24, 2025, the Holy See updated Pope Francis on his health. No new respiratory crisis has occurred, the oxygen flow has been reduced slightly, and the results of the tests ...
The changes Francis brought to the papacy were more than skin deep. He opened the church to the outside world in ways none of ...
Time-honored rituals, drafted and refined over centuries, allow time for mourning and provide order at a dramatic moment of ...