The Vatican has expressed its solidarity with Muslims participating in the Ramadan fast, noting that Catholics also fast and do penance during the season of Lent and inviting greater dialogue and ...

Advertisement Article continues below this ad In the early Sunday update, the Vatican said Francis was resting after a quiet night. For the fourth Sunday in a row, the pope will not appear for his ...

The Vatican appears to have modified its position against gender-affirming surgery and “gender theory” last year, raising the possibility of “exceptional situations.” This week the Vatican ...

The Vatican's Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life has decreed the suppression of the Miles Christi religious order, founded in Argentina and the subject of ...

The next medical bulletin won't be released until Saturday, the Vatican said. Pope Francis on Thursday made his first public comments since being hospitalized on Feb. 14, thanking the public for ...

Friday marks the pope's 22nd consecutive day in hospital. LONDON and ROME -- Pope Francis' "overall condition remains stable within his complex medical situation and the prognosis remains reserved ...

The Apostolic Palace in the Vatican is home to the Holy See’s Secretariat of State, the engine room of the Catholic Church’s central administration. Entering the offices on the third floor of ...

ROME — Pope Francis continued his recovery from double pneumonia on Saturday as the Vatican machinery and Holy Year celebrations marched on without him, this weekend dedicated to the Catholic ...

Pope Francis spent Thursday alternating between working and resting after a quiet night at Rome's Gemelli hospital, his home away from the Vatican for almost three weeks while combating double ...

The message was recorded from the 88-year-old pope's room at the Gemelli Polyclinic hospital in Rome, according to the Vatican. "I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your prayers for my ...