Pope Francis

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The sudden death two years ago of Cardinal George Pell, the Australian prelate Pope Francis had enlisted to clean up the Vatican’s finances, left the Catholic conservative cohort in Rome without an identifiable leader. A new biography takes a look at his legacy and how he…

Pope Francis on Wednesday expressed his concerns over the developments in Congo. It comes as Rwanda-backed rebels captured large parts of eastern Congo’s largest city including its airport, according to the United Nations. Much of the beleaguered city of Goma was calm early Wednesday morning, after a day during which…

(RNS) — Noting that women are better managers than men, Pope Francis announced he is adding another woman to his administrative staff, naming Franciscan Sister Raffaella Petrini to succeed retiring Spanish Cardinal Fernando Vérgez Alzaga as president of the Governatorate of Vatican City State. She will be the second woman…

Pope Francis, 88, experienced a fall at his residence in the Vatican, leaving him with a bruised right forearm, the Vatican confirmed on Thursday. Despite the injury, no fractures were reported, and the pontiff is now using a sling as a precautionary measure. “Pope Francis suffered a contusion on his…

  January 16, (THEWILL) – Catholic Pontiff and sovereign of the Vatican City State, Pope Francis fell and injured his arm on Thursday in his residence, the Vatican said. This comes just weeks after another apparent fall resulted in a bad bruise on his chin. On Dec. 7, the pope…

The 88-year-old has been in increasingly fragile health - Copyright GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP/File TASOS KATOPODIS Pope Francis has suffered his second fall in as many months and bruised his forearm, the Vatican said Thursday, adding that he was wearing a sling. The 88-year-old, who has been in increasingly fragile…

Pope Francis injured his right forearm after a fall in his residence on Thursday but did not suffer any broken bones and continued on with his agenda for the day, the Vatican said. Images from the pope’s meetings on Thursday morning showed Francis using a simple cloth sling, wrapped around his neck, to…

CNN  —  One of Pope Francis’ lasting reforms will be his reshaping of the papacy to embrace simplicity and humility, as seen in his decisions to live in a Vatican guesthouse and carry his own briefcase onto the papal plane. With the release of a new autobiography Tuesday, titled “Hope,”…

Pope Francis, who turned 88 last month and asked an aide to read a major speech last week because of a cold, says in a new book that he feels healthy and has no plans to resign as leader of the global Catholic Church. “I am well,” the pontiff states in an…

From the Irish nurse who struggled to feed him as a newborn to what he misses most from his previous life, the pontiff’s memoir is full of surprises Pope Francis as a young seminarian at Villa Devoto, Argentina. Photo: Mondadori Portfolio/ Archivio GBB The opening of Pope Francis’s memoir, a…