What happens to the leadership of the Catholic Church when a pope becomes sick or incapacitated?
What happens when a pope is incapacitated? Is he still pope? Pope Francis remains hospitalized in critical condition with a ...
Headstrong Francis Put the Church Above His Health, Vatican Observers Say
Many who know him said that Francis, driven by a sense of mission and a discipline born of his early training, essentially ...
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Pope Francis resting as Rome diocese rallies in prayer
After experiencing a major downturn in his condition Saturday that required high oxygen treatment and blood transfusions, ...
Vatican Says Pope Francis Is in Critical Condition
ROME — Pope Francis was in critical condition Saturday after he suffered a long asthmatic respiratory crisis that required ...
Italian cardinal, a former high Vatican official, says ailing Pope Francis could resign
Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, the former head of the Vatican’s department of cultural affairs, raised the possibility of ...
The Conclave effect: Streets of Rome fill with gossip after latest Pope news
Streets of Rome fill with gossip after latest Pope news - Rumours have taken on a life of their own, fuelled by conspiracy ...
Sepsis a threat in pope's pneumonia battle as Vatican Holy Year celebrations march on without him
The Vatican is carrying on with its Holy Year celebrations without the pope. ROME — The Vatican carried on with its Holy Year ...
Vatican cancels pope's weekend engagements as he battles 'complex' infection
Pope Francis, who is spending his fifth day in hospital, will not take part in this weekend's Holy Year events, the Vatican ...