What Happens to the Leadership of the Catholic Church When a Pope Is Sick or Incapacitated?
The Vatican has laws to ensure the transfer of power when a pope dies or resigns, but they don't apply if he is sick.
Pope Francis critical: Here is how the Vatican selects a new pontiff
The death of a sitting pope initiates a profound period of mourning and transition within the Roman Catholic Church, marked ...
Headstrong Francis Put the Church Above His Health, Vatican Observers Say
Many who know him said that Francis, driven by a sense of mission and a discipline born of his early training, essentially ...
Pope now in ‘critical condition’ after pneumonia, Vatican warns
Pope Francis was placed in “critical condition” on Saturday, the Vatican said, just four days after the religious leader ...
Pope Francis in Critical Condition After ‘Respiratory Crisis,’ Vatican Says
The announcement on Saturday evening indicated that Francis’ medical condition had become more complicated since an update ...
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Pope Francis is in critical condition, Vatican says
The Vatican reports that Pope Francis is in critical condition after experiencing a prolonged asthmatic respiratory crisis ...
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Getting Married at the Vatican: Catholic Couples Get a Taste of Heaven
The Vatican allows Catholic marriages to take place in the Chapel of the Choir in St. Peter’s Basilica and in the small city ...
Vatican work continues apace even with Pope Francis in hospital
While Pope Francis battles pneumonia in hospital, work at the Vatican, headquarters of the 1.4 billion-member Catholic Church ...
Pope Francis conscious but remains in critical condition, Vatican says
The Vatican said Francis, who has pneumonia in both lungs and had part of one lung removed as a young man, was still ...
Another woman takes over a top job at the Vatican, this time running the city state administration
ROME — Another woman is taking over a top management job in the Vatican : Sister Raffaella Petrini, an Italian nun, was named ...
From his hospital bed, Pope Francis stays in touch with Catholic parishioners in Gaza
Even while Pope Francis is hospitalized, he still keeps in touch with a Roman Catholic parish in Gaza City, making near-nightly phone calls to the priest and congregation there.