The truth may be out there, but when it comes to the health of the pontiff, many people prefer more fanciful tales.
Discussions of succession scenarios have been accelerated by the pontiff’s bout with double pneumonia and warnings that he ...
King Charles III is scheduled to have an audience with Pope Francis during a state visit next month to the Vatican, ...
Pope Francis was hospitalized on Feb. 14, after suffering a bout of bronchitis for weeks and after increasingly finding it ...
John XXIII, who was elected Pope in 1958, called an ecumenical council, only the twenty-first in the nearly two-thousand-year history of the Church. Paul VI left the Vatican for trips to Bombay ...
The pope rested peacefully overnight as he began his 27th consecutive day in the hospital Wednesday morning, the Vatican said ...
Canon law requires a papal resignation to be "freely and properly manifested" – as was the case when Benedict announced his resignation in 2013.In 1965, Pope Paul VI wrote letters to the dean of ...
The history of the papacy is filled with unusual, dramatic events. From a pope put on trial after death to a resignation that ...
In 1965, Pope Paul VI wrote letters to the dean of the College of Cardinals hypothesizing that if he were to become seriously ill, the dean and other cardinals should accept his resignation.