Pope Francis was resting Thursday after a peaceful night during his third week of hospital treatment for double pneumonia.

A 900-year-old book found in the Vatican Secret Archives predicts Judgement Day in 2027. Saint Malachy's 'Prophecy of the ...

As Pope Francis remains hospitalized in Rome, thousands of faithful from around the world have been gathering by St.

The Catholic Church has opened the solemn Lenten season leading to Easter without the participation of Pope Francis.

On Ash Wednesday, observant Catholics receive a sign of the cross in ashes on their foreheads, a gesture that underscores human mortality. It is an obligatory day of fasting and abstinence for ...

The Vatican houses the central government of the Catholic Church and is also an independent city-state. The pope is both the ...

The Placer County Sheriff's Office said deputies were responding to reports of gunfire heard near a small, private school in North Auburn on Wednesday afternoon. Officials said the sound of gunfire ...

Time-honored rituals, drafted and refined over centuries, allow time for mourning and provide order at a dramatic moment of ...

An Irish bishop from the 12th century wrote a cryptic Latin work in which he claimed to know the sequence of popes.

Pope Francis has spent 19 full days at Rome's Gemelli hospital, however, it doesn't come close to approaching the record-long ...

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