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

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

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

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 ...

In “John Paul II, the Feminist Pope” (Houses of Worship, March 14) Erika Bachiochi reduces the pontiff’s teaching to sound bites about abstract “equality” so that it conforms to the ...

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

The church’s ancient defense of women’s dignity proffered by St. Augustine doesn’t need modern ideologies.

The Vatican has released the first photograph of the pope in more than a month, showing Pope Francis wearing a purple Lenten ...

Thousands of people took to the streets of Warsaw and other cities in Poland on Sunday to mark the anniversary of the death of John Paul II 18 years ago and honour the legacy of the Polish-born pope, ...

The 88-year-old pontiff is now able to spend some time during the day off high flows of oxygen and use just ordinary ...

Pope Francis’ health remains “stable,” and he no longer needs overnight mechanical ventilation, a Vatican source said. The ...