Vatican on Sunday starts busy week of events ahead of Easter Unclear if Pope Francis, healing from pneumonia, will take part Pontiff, 88, taking two months of rest out of public view Catholics say ...

Vatican via Getty King Charles and Queen Camilla are saying "ciao" to Pope Francis after all. On April 9, the King and Queen privately met with the 88-year-old leader of the Catholic Church in a ...

King Charles has met with Pope Francis privately while on a State Visit to Italy, Buckingham Palace said today. The meeting took place at the Vatican after the Pope invited the King for a private ...

Pope Francis greeted England’s King Charles and Queen Camilla on Wednesday in a brief meeting in which the dignitaries wished each other well at the pope’s private residence. The Holy See ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Pope Francis has named a Maryland prelate to serve as Rhode Island’s new Roman Catholic bishop, the Vatican announced Tuesday, giving the state’s Catholics fresh ...

Pope Francis blesses the faithful at the Jubilee of the Sick in St. Peter's Square, Vatican City, on April 6, 2025, as his personal nurse, Massimo Strappetti, assists him in the wheelchair.

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. Pope Francis was rolled into St Peter’s Square in a wheelchair during a special Jubilee Mass for the sick, marking his first public ...

Pope Francis made his first public appearance Sunday since his weeks-long hospital stay, briefly greeting the crowd in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. Sitting in a wheelchair and wearing an ...

Pope Francis publicly acknowledged that this Lenten season is a time of healing for his soul and body. On Sunday, the Vatican released the text of Francis' prepared Sunday Angelus prayer.

Pope Francis shared that he is experiencing “healing,” specifically “in my soul and my body,” as he reaches the eighth day of the minimum two-month period of rest and convalescence ...

As hundreds of Missionaries of Mercy gathered in Rome this weekend, Pope Francis commended their distinctive ministry of forgiveness and reconciliation that continues to flourish worldwide.

Pope Francis has shown “a truly surprising improvement” since returning to the Vatican to convalesce after surviving a life-threatening bout with double-pneumonia, the doctor who coordinated the ...