A secret meeting, and echoes of Benedict’s exit, have heightened talk that Francis could resign, too. But the possibility is ...

A special meeting of Cardinals has reportedly been scheduled, though the Vatican denies that it is linked to any announcement ...

Pope Francis has transformed the church from an institution in which a few called the shots to a church of the people of God.

Concerns over Pope Francis' health have mounted in recent years as have questions about his succession. Here's what we know.

Concerns over Pope Francis' health have mounted in recent years as have questions about his succession. Here's what we know.

Over the weekend, the Vatican announced serious complications in the recovery of Pope Francis. The 88-year-old pontiff, who ...

Pope Francis plans to convene a consistory, which is a meeting of cardinals, at the Vatican. There would be nothing unusual ...

And the postulator of St. John Paul II's sainthood cause, Msgr. Slawomir Oder, in 2010 published the letters Pope John Paul ...

A scholar of global Catholicism writes how Francis has opened the church to the outside world in ways no pope had done before ...

The resignation of Pope Benedict XVI has demonstrated the process by which a pope might step down and be replaced.

Like his predecessors, Pope Francis was selected using an age-old method -- a system known as the Papal conclave.

Despite his hospital stay, Pope Francis remains in charge of the Catholic Church. But what if his health continues to decline ...