The beloved religious institution is now the Basilica of St. Edward, just as church officials begin to plan a centenary ...

Fra Angelico is one of the most important painters of the first half of the Italian Quattrocento (15th century). He is the patron saint of painters and artists.

What happens when a pope is incapacitated? Is he still pope? Pope Francis remains hospitalized in critical condition with a ...

More clinical tests were being performed on the 88-year-old pope, who had part of one lung removed as a young man.

Though the pope remained critical on Sunday, he “presented no further respiratory crisis” the Vatican said. Pope Francis remains in critical condition as he receives treatment for double pneumonia and ...

Pope Francis was placed in “critical condition” on Saturday, the Vatican said, just four days after the religious leader ...

Vatican officials said that Pope Francis had developed pneumonia in both lungs, further complicating the pontiff’s recovery ...