Pope Francis said in a letter published Tuesday that his lengthy illness has helped make “more lucid” to him the absurdity of ...

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Stable medical situation: the pneumonia is slowly regressing, but the clinical picture remains very complex. For four weeks, ...

Celebrating with a cake with twelve candles, as many as his years of pontificate, the eighty-eight-year-old Pontiff entered ...

Signs of the times. The rise of Trumpism has fueled a new form of “civic sedevacantism,” challenging the legitimacy of the ...

Pope Francis marked the 12th anniversary of his papacy Thursday with increasingly positive medical updates four weeks into ...

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Also on Wednesday, the Holy See Press Office denied a statement by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I claiming that Pope ...