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

The Vatican No. 2, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, is to lead the first prayer on Monday evening. Francis, who has double pneumonia ...

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

ROME and LONDON -- Pope Francis was "resting" on Monday morning after spending his 10th night in the hospital, the Vatican ...

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Pope Francis is still critically ill as he battles double pneumonia and the onset of slight kidney failure, but he remains ...

Discover the story behind Rome's Gemelli hospital, often referred to as 'Vatican III' by Pope John Paul II. Learn why this ...

Built on land donated by Pope Pius XI to the theologian and physician Agostino Gemelli in 1934, it has become known as the ...

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While the Vatican has established comprehensive laws and rituals to manage the transfer of power when a pope dies or resigns, these protocols do not apply if a pope falls seriously ill or becomes ...

With Pope Francis remaining in critical condition fighting a complex respiratory infection and bilateral pneumonia, the ...