The 88-year-old pope gave a thumbs up and acknowledged the crowd after he was wheeled out onto the balcony overlooking the ...

JFK assassination experts are finding potentially explosive new material in the vast trove of top-secret records that ...

Elsa lives in a remote seaside village; Nightingale, her new friend, lives in a city hundreds of miles away with her father, ...

ROME — Pope Francis has written and spoken at length about sickness, aging and death, and personally directed his doctors ... Vatican II-era pontiff, John XXIII.

Pope Francis has written and spoken at length about sickness, aging and death. And he has personally directed that his ...

Pope Francis predicted short papacy, early death - Francis suggested as early as 2014 that his time in office would be brief ...

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Pope Francis issued a message Sunday thanking volunteers for the "miracle of tenderness" they offer the sick, as the Vatican celebrated the Holy Year Mass for volunteers around the world in his ...

They placed candles, prayer beads and other items at the base of a statue of the late Pope John Paul II, who was treated at the facility many times over his 1978-2005 papacy. Maria Neve ...

Never.” While Cardinal Dziwisz said that John Paul remained lucid and able to govern the church to the end, stories abound about curial officials jockeying for power as the pope’s ...

The pope was wounded by gunshots in his abdomen and hand.June 20-Aug. 14, 1981 — 55 daysIn his longest hospitalization, John Paul underwent a minor surgical operation and was then treated for a ...