Pope Francis announced this week that he intends on having a much more simple funeral than those of his predecessors at the ...

Pope Francis is warning that the Vatican's troubled pension fund faces a “serious imbalance” and cannot guarantee future ...

The 75-year-old has become prominent in Catholic media over the past few years because of his consistent criticisms of ...

Nowadays, many faithful choose to bow and kiss the papal ring. Conservative Catholics, who routinely accuse the current Pope of straying from church doctrine and tradition, now suspect that he has ...

The current Pope Francis, who was appointed in 2013, was elected through this process at the age of 76. The vote for a new ...

Given that it was not the first time that Benedict had used the barque image, it appears to be not an attack on the current pope but rather a critique of the relativism and secularism seeping into ...

Vatican City One million people have gathered in Rome ahead of the ceremony, which will be attended by current Pope Francis I ...

He has also anticipated the current pope on some of his pronouncements. In 1993, Kasper drew the disapproval of Pope John Paul II and then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI ...

It detailed what the author deemed were failures of the current Pope and a list of priorities for choosing the next. In the anonymous memo, the author wrote that "Christ is being moved from the ...

Despite temperature cooldown, tick activity is still on the rise, warn officials ...

Pope Francis is just a few weeks away from his 88th birthday, and plotting for his successor is well underway at the Vatican. Meanwhile, just across town in Rome, 'Conclave' a thriller filled with ...