The nuns who operate the Vatican’s switchboard are fielding a growing number of calls. Many want to know how Pope Francis ...

Adult Fiction "Death Takes Me" by Cristina Rivera Garza: A city is always a cemetery. When a professor named Cristina Rivera Garza stumbles on the corpse of a man in a dark alley, she finds a stark ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — Millions of people in South Asia celebrated Holi, the Hindu festival of colors, on Friday by smearing each other with brightly colored powder, dancing to festive music and feasting on ...

Cuba completed this week the agreed-upon release of 553 prisoners. However, it did not report how many were linked to the ...

A month after being hospitalized, Pope Francis is showing significant improvement, moving as he did before his admission.

For much of the church’s history, the pope’s body was closely associated with the sanctity of his office, as the papal ...

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

In a long post on X, the Ukrainian leader said that during the conversation with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, “I wished Pope Francis a speedy recovery and thanked him for his prayers and moral support for ...

The Catholic Church sees the work of entrepreneurs as a response to a vocational calling to co-create with God.

A Mass was held in St. Peter's Basilica Friday in honor of Pope Francis as the 88-year-old marked two milestones this week: ...

Pope Francis on Friday marked one month in the hospital where he is being treated for double pneumonia, with signs in recent ...

The 88-year-old has now spent four weeks in hospital, much of it with an uncertain prognosis, but he is no longer in imminent ...