Speech is among our greatest gifts, yet self-mastery in speech is rare. Some of the most common sins we commit are related to speech: gossip, idle chatter, lies, exaggeration, harsh attack, and ...

Amid ongoing health issues facing Pope Francis, here is the process by the Vatican when a pontiff passes away.

A health update on Pope Francis has described the pontiff as resting following a quiet night.

Pope Francis experienced an isolated bronchial spasm resulting in a temporary setback in his hospitalization treatment for ...

The Vatican says the "criticality" of Pope Francis health condition "has subsided for the moment," but he's still ...

There has long been a Vatican taboo against openly talking about a conclave when a pope is sick: It’s considered gauche to speculate about the election of a new pope while the current one is fighting ...

Speakers and attendees at the 2025 National Catholic Prayer Breakfast on Friday prayed for Pope Francis amid his ongoing ailments and emphasized a message of hope.

Vance praised Pope Francis for a 2020 sermon, delivered during the Covid pandemic, that brought him solace after he ...

Pope Francis suffered a bronchial spasm on Friday that resulted in him breathing in vomit, requiring non-invasive mechanical ventilation.

Vice President Vance on Friday said that American Catholics focus too much on criticism coming from clergy members, in ...

U.S. Vice President JD Vance led attendees at the 2025 National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in a prayer for Pope Francis’ ...

A scholar of global Catholicism writes how Francis has opened the church to the outside world in ways no pope had done before ...