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

The development marked a setback in what had been two successive days of increasingly upbeat reports from doctors treating ...

Vance told the Catholic gathering he wasn’t there to litigate “about who’s right and who’s wrong,” though he said he would continue to defend his views.

Pope Francis, in hospital with pneumonia, suffered a breathing "crisis" on Friday which caused him to vomit but he was given ...