U.S. cardinal to play key role until a new pope is elected
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — With the death of Pope Francis April 21, the practical aspects of overseeing the…
Pope’s funeral rites, a celebration of hope, to begin late April 21
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis’ funeral rites, like those for any pope or any Christian, are meant…
With pastor’s touch, Pope Francis preached mercy, embraced ‘peripheries’
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis, who died April 21 at the age of 88 gave new energy to…
Pope is following doctors’ orders for his convalescence, Vatican says
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — During his second week back at the Vatican after a long hospitalization, Pope Francis…
Nicaea anniversary inspires faith, strengthens mission, theologians say
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Christians should not see the Nicene Creed simply as a list of things they…
Pope to return to Vatican, prescribed to continue rest, doctors announce
By Justin McLellan, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis will return to his residence in the Vatican March 23 after spending 38…
Pope’s breathing ‘crisis’ reportedly passes, but he’s still on oxygen
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — While Italy’s main news agency reported that Pope Francis’ respiratory “crisis” had subsided, a Vatican…
Deacons are called to selflessness, men ordained at Jubilee Mass are told
By Justin McLellan, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — “Being ordained is not an ascent but a descent, whereby we make ourselves small, lower…
Pope has respiratory ‘crisis,’ doctors say ‘prognosis reserved’
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis experienced “an asthmatic respiratory crisis of prolonged magnitude, which also required the use…
Pope’s chronic lung condition plus infection are serious, doctor says
By Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — While Pope Francis’ life is not in immediate danger, the level of multiple infections in…