Wednesday, 2 April, 2025, marks the 20th anniversary of Saint Pope John Paul II's departure to the House of the Father at the age of 84, after carrying the cross of a terrible Parkinson disease ...

Pope Francis was released home to the Vatican following a hospitalization in which he suffered two respiratory episodes that ...

One’s almsgiving is like a signet ring with the Lord,’ says Sirach 17:22, ‘and he will keep a person’s kindness like the ...

Francis was admitted to a hospital Feb. 14 after a bout of bronchitis worsened. He later developed a life-threatening case of ...

You can’t be a priest without people, it doesn’t make theological sense. The priesthood is not about power or control' ...

As a result of his long road to recovery, there has been speculation that Pope Francis could choose to follow his predecessor Benedict XVI in resigning the papacy. But friends and biographers ...

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 ...

The pope has been in hospital for more than a month and his prolonged public absence has stoked speculation that he could choose to follow his predecessor Benedict XVI and resign from the papacy. His ...

God of all the ages, on my visit to Jerusalem, the “City of Peace”, spiritual home to Jews, Christians and Muslims alike, I bring before you the joys, the hopes and the aspirations, the trials ...

Pope Francis, first pontiff in centuries to publish an autobiography while in office, shares personal stories, reflections on migration, and his journey as leader.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Pope Francis is in his fourth week recovering at a hospital in Rome from pneumonia in both his lungs. He ...

Pope Francis has marked the 12th anniversary of his papacy with increasingly positive medical updates four weeks into his hospitalisation for double pneumonia.