While the Vatican has detailed laws and rituals to ensure the transfer of power when a pope dies or resigns, they do not ...

The announcement on Saturday evening indicated that Francis’ medical condition had become more complicated since an update ...

The death of a sitting pope initiates a profound period of mourning and transition within the Roman Catholic Church, marked ...

A British court has largely backed the Vatican and refused to declare that a London-based financier acted in “good faith” in ...

A ruling by the High Court of England and Wales published Feb. 21 confirmed that the Vatican Secretariat of State was deceived by Italian financier Raffaele Mincione.

While Pope Francis battles pneumonia in hospital, work at the Vatican, headquarters of the 1.4 billion-member Catholic Church ...

Sister Raffaella Petrini, a Franciscan Sister of the Eucharist, was officially appointed by Pope Francis as head of the ...

The Vatican was “utterly let down” by a financier over the purchase of a luxury London property that left the city state ...

Sister Raffaella Petrini, an Italian nun, was named president of the Vatican City State, the 44-hectare (108-acre) territory ...

Suffering from pneumonia affecting both lungs, Pope Francis, whose health condition is causing serious concern, has been hospitalized at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital since February 14. In his absence, life ...

Pope Francis has been receiving treatment for a respiratory tract infection in the hospital for the past four days and will remain there for however long necessary the Vatican says. The 88-year ...