The Pope reached out, affectionately ran his fingers through my hair, then shook my hand, his handshake firm, hands warm. “Smile,” said the shutterbug who captured my father grinning, the Pope beaming ...

On Wednesday, the Vatican said Pope Francis “had a tranquil night, woke up and had breakfast,” saying he was in good spirits.

Pope Francis, the 88-year-old head of the 1.4-billion-member Roman Catholic Church, is in hospital being treated for double ...

Cardinal William Goh urged young Catholics to discern their vocations not as career choices but as deep and compelling calls ...

Jack O’Connell, a former Catholic priest and the retired CEO of the Health & Welfare Council of Long Island said of any ...

The Vatican says Pope Francis has developed pneumonia in both his lungs, after new tests showed a further complication in the ...

On Jan. 11, 1942, a doctor made a house call at a South Side home where a 16-year-old girl was about to give birth. Cold air swept through the narrow shotgun house as he trudged across the squeaky, ...

He has always been a man of many callings, each one tugging at his heart like a restless tide. At one point, he almost donned the robes of a priest, ready to shepherd souls and serve the divine. But ...

Converts and other Catholics took issue with the celebrity priest’s perceived dismissal of Vance’s views based on the vice ...

Pope Francis, who was admitted to a hospital in Rome for bronchitis, is in “fair” condition with a “respiratory tract ...