Holy Week is a time when the pope would be expected to be front and center of events. But as Francis continues to recover ...

Pope Francis visited Rome's central prison Thursday and met with dozens of inmates as he kept an Easter season appointment to ...

The Vatican is opening the most solemn period of Holy Week with a recovering Pope Francis largely on the sidelines.

Pope Francis gave his first public comments since falling ill before his visit to Rome's Regina Caeli prison on Holy Thursday ...

The 88-year-old Francis is entering his fourth week of convalescence, which is expected to last at least two months.

Since Francis’ hospitalization on Feb. 14, the Vatican has issued a written message from him every Sunday, but there is a possibility that on April 6, he may appear “in a different way.” ...

Pope Francis on Monday appointed Bishop Michael McGovern ... The Chicago native will be installed as archbishop of Omaha in the Cathedral of St. Cecilia on May 7. He succeeds Lucas, who submitted ...

A school bus driver fatally struck a 20-year-old man riding an electric bike in St. Francis on Friday morning, authorities said. The collision happened just before 7:30 a.m. when a woman who was ...