Francis, who lost part of a lung to a respiratory infection in his youth and has been plagued by ailing health recently, last ...

What is a Conclave? Process to select a Pope explained as Francis undergoes hospital treatment - The method the Catholic ...

A British court has largely backed the Vatican and refused to declare that a London-based financier acted in “good faith” in ...

Beyond the handful of memorial libraries, many other ancient Roman public libraries were great cultural centers, including ...

Pope Francis is responding “positively” to medical treatment for pneumonia, according to the Vatican, a week after the 88-year-old pontiff was hospitalized in Rome.

The Vatican was "utterly let down" by an Italian financier over the Catholic Church's botched investment in a high-end London property, a judge ruled on Friday following a trial at which a senior aide ...

The suddenness of Mount Vesuvius's eruption, has given us an incomparable look into Roman life 2,000 years ago.