Pope Francis’s battle with double pneumonia is the most serious health complication the pontiff has suffered from since ...

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

The Vatican, though, made alternative plans for Ash Wednesday next week, making clear Francis still had a long road ahead.

A scholar of global Catholicism writes how Francis has opened the church to the outside world in ways no pope had done before ...