O my Creator and Father, I beg of you the most important of all your graces: that of final perseverance and a holy death. Despite the fact that I have greatly misused the life you have given me ...

patron in life and at the hour of my death. Preserve and increase in me the spirit of prayer and fervor in the service of God.

Vatican officials say that Pope Francis's medical condition has improved and that he is currently “out of danger from death," ...

Nevertheless, his near-term upcoming calendar of events was being changed: The Vatican cancelled a Holy Year audience scheduled for Saturday ... 91-year-old Re would have a key role in any papal death ...

The Vatican issued an update Saturday on the health of Pope Francis, who remains in Rome’s Gemelli hospital under the care of doctors, saying that while his prognosis remains "complex," the pope is no ...