Theodore McCarrick, a once-powerful Catholic cardinal who was defrocked by Pope Francis in 2019 after a Vatican investigation ...

The first cardinal to be defrocked by the Pope over allegations of sexual abuse has died in the United States, a senior US ...

COMMENTARY: Looking at Pope St. John Paul II’s legacy in historical context underscores why so many people call him ‘John ...

Being a witness to hope, St. John Paul will continue to serve the people of the world far into the future. He left the earth ...

One of the pope's greatest achievements will have been his engagement with the humanities and humanity — with a deep ...

Francis' willingness to be seen in all his infirmity serves as an example to young and old alike that fragility is part of ...

On the night of March 12-13, 2013, just hours before Cardinal Jorge Bergolio would be elected pope, young adults were ...

no." Pope Francis has experienced several bouts of ill health over the last two years and is prone to lung infections because he had pleurisy as a young adult and had part of one lung removed.

For most of his hospital stay, including critical stages, the Vatican was publishing daily bulletins on the health of the Pope, who had part of one lung removed as a young man. The Pope’s ...

Pope Francis has noted that many young people “feel dismayed as they look to the future,” and says “a call to leave ourselves behind [in a vocation] and embark on a journey of love and ...

and the loss of part of a lung as a young man. In an audio recording released March 6, the pope spoke in a feeble and labored voice as he thanked the faithful in St. Peter’s Square for their ...