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

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

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

This hospitalization now ties Francis' longest as pope. He spent 10 days at Gemelli hospital in 2021 after he had 13 inches of his colon removed. In New York on Sunday, Cardinal Timothy Dolan ...

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

WIVB News 4 spoke with Mike Taheri and Patrick Gorman, parishioners who have been vocal in the fight to keep churches open ...

Since the 13th century, the embalmed body of the deceased pope has been taken, in procession, to lie in state, on a raised ...

Francis has weighed in publicly before on ethics for end-of-life medical situations, but it is unknown whether he has made ...

The expatriate community is small but shares a special bond with Francis, who has been in the hospital since Feb. 14.

The Vatican reported Friday that he experienced sudden breathing problems that required “non-invasive mechanical ventilation” ...

“I believe Pope Francis will be known as one of the most ... a professor of theology at Fordham University in the Bronx, New York. Still, nearly a dozen years after the Pope's initial statement ...

People in Rome and the Vatican are relying on their faith as they cope with the daily anxiety waiting to hear about the ...