Journalists and Vatican officials who have covered multiple pontificates describe the challenges, secrecy and unprecedented ...

Steeped in the Christian tradition, the pontiff taught that men and women are different to their core, revealing something ...

In an interview, the leader of Pope Francis’s medical team called it “a miracle” that the 88-year-old pontiff left the ...

“Celebrating mercy, especially with Jubilee pilgrims, is a privilege: God has made us ministers of mercy by his grace, a gift ...

The year closed with John Paul named Time magazine’s Man of the Year for 1994. In January 1995 he went to Manila for the ...

On March 25, the solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord, the International Day of the Unborn Child is celebrated in more ...

Pope Francis is making his first public appearance in five weeks before being discharged from the hospital where he was ...

Pope Francis will be released from the hospital on Sunday, his doctors have said, after 38 days battling a life-threatening ...

Throughout Francis’ ill health, the Vatican has drawn comparisons with the latter years of Pope John Paul II. The Polish pope continued to lead the church despite a long period of illness ...

The Catholic Church is often said to think in terms of centuries, not years or even decades. But John Paul's 2025 encyclical ...