As Pope Francis remains in critical condition at Gemelli Hospital in Rome – still in charge of the Vatican and the worldwide ...
The Vatican has laws to ensure the transfer of power when a pope dies or resigns, but they don't apply if he is sick.
COMMENTARY: However, vigils for popes, like the current one for Pope Francis, have been the exception, not the rule.
A scholar of global Catholicism writes how Francis has opened the church to the outside world in ways no pope had done before ...
The Vatican has detailed laws and rituals to ... And there are no specific norms outlining what happens to the leadership of the Catholic Church if a pope becomes totally incapacitated.
Pope Francis is in a critical condition at Rome's Gemelli Hospital, raising concerns about the Vatican's leadership and the Catholic Church's future. As speculation about his possible ...
Philip Shenon talks about the past seven popes, and how efforts to reform the Church with the Second Vatican Council led to power struggles and doctrinal debates that lasted for decades.
In a curious chapter of the Catholic Church's history, the trifacial Trinities that were painted were deemed so unorthodox ...