Francis has been alternating rest, prayer and bits of work when he feels up to it People pray at the statue of John Paul II ...

Pope Francis will on Thursday mark the 12th anniversary of his election as leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics, but he will do so from Rome's Gemelli ...

Kate Soucheray, a licensed marriage and family therapist emeritus and writer of the “Simple Holiness” column in The Catholic Spirit said that stepping away from responsibility out of fear is a common ...

Francis, who has chronic lung issues, continued to work through ... has also written a letter of resignation, to be invoked if he became medically incapacitated. Magnets showing Pope Francis ...

The writer is a 14-year-old pupil at Loreto Grammar School in Altrincham. She was awarded second prize in the Columban Schools Competition 2025: 'Jubilee: Pilgrims of Hope'.'Pilgrims of Hope', a ...

Mercy and compassion must be our first impulse when confronted with sin and human failure,' said the cardinal, who will fill ...

Discover the beauty of Renaissance paintings, where art, realism, and storytelling blend to create timeless masterpieces that ...

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

Pope Francis has written and spoken at length about sickness, aging and death. And he has personally directed that his ...

Pope Francis has entered his fourth week in the hospital with double pneumonia. Francis has increasingly handed off his ...

On the occasion of the 12th anniversary of his election to the papacy, Pope Francis received hundreds of drawings, messages, ...

The pope has emerged as an increasingly lonely moral voice against perilous global trends like nationalism and populism.