The Vatican has set in motion nightly prayers for Pope Francis in the hope that he might recover and get back to leading the ...

Pope Francis remained in critical condition as the Vatican called senior church officials in Rome to a special saying of the ...

The Vatican on Monday announced the start of nighttime prayers for the health of Pope Francis in St. Peter's Square, and ...

Pope Francis "rested well throughout the night" in the hospital, the Vatican says, and even met with Vatican officials to ...

Pope Francis' doctors "are prudently maintaining their cautious prognosis" as the pontiff's condition of respiratory and ...

Every year on Feb. 22, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of the Chair of St. Peter, a tradition that dates back more ...

Entrusting the pope "to the powerful intercession of most holy Mary," the cardinal said, "may she sustain him in this time of ...

"But we also pray in thanksgiving for what he has done for the Church ... Vatican's walls. Elisabetta Zumbo carried a 5-foot-long cross down a cordoned-off section of the street leading to St ...

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, will lead a public recitation of the rosary at 9 p.m. Feb. 24 in St.

VATICAN CITY — Thousands of people gathered in St. Peter’s Square to pray for an ailing ... gratitude for his efforts to steer the Catholic Church in new directions. The 88-year-old Francis ...