Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service
Scans rule out infection after Pope Francis runs a fever
VATICAN CITY — Recovering from colon surgery, Pope Francis briefly ran a fever late July 7, leading his doctors to perform a CT scan...
Pope Francis urges people of Haiti to shun violence, commit to...
VATICAN CITY -- Condemning the "heinous assassination" of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, Pope Francis urged the people of Haiti to shun violence and make...
Pope Francis recovers in the hospital after surgery, but Vatican protocol...
VATICAN CITY -- The organization of the universal Catholic Church has a precise hierarchy, but there is no such thing as a "vice pope,"...
Pope Francis ‘reacted well,’ recovering after surgery for symptomatic diverticular stenosis...
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis was hospitalized July 4 and underwent surgery on his sigmoid colon, the lowest part of the large intestine, the...
In continuation of teaching on Gospel nonviolence, Pope Francis calls for...
VATICAN CITY — Modern popes have been clear voices for peace, but Pope Francis is moving closer to a broad embrace of nonviolence and...
‘You are needed,’ Pope Francis tells grandparents, all elderly people
VATICAN CITY — Writing to his peers, Catholics who have reached a venerable age like he has, Pope Francis told older Catholics that God...
Vatican, Italian media conclude U.S. bishops’ debate on Eucharist is directly...
ROME (CNS) -- While the U.S. bishops authorized the drafting of a teaching document on the Eucharist and insisted its planned section on "eucharistic...
Pope Francis: Find hope in this world by following the messages...
VATICAN CITY -- For those who learn to look carefully, the world is filled with signs of God's presence, and noticing those signs is...
Italian bishop will visit Congregation for Clergy on behalf of Pope...
VATICAN CITY — As he did before naming a new prefect for the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments, Pope Francis has asked...
German Cardinal Reinhard Marx offers resignation, citing ‘systemic failures’ in handling...
VATICAN CITY -- German Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich and Freising, 67, has submitted his resignation to Pope Francis, saying that bishops must begin...