VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis’s convalescence has revived memories of the painful end of John Paul II’s life, highlighting the ...

Bishop Dónal McKeown will officially submit his retirement letter to Pope Francis next Saturday. The Bishop of Derry turns 75 ...

The fragile state of the pope’s health had spurred speculation that he could step down, as his predecessor, Benedict XVI ... had turned to the pope’s resignation, he replied: “No, no ...

Pope Francis, hospitalised for a month with pneumonia, called Tuesday for an end to war in a letter to Italy's leading newspaper, and urged the media to "serve the truth".

In 2006, Pope Benedict XVI accepted the resignation of then-Cardinal McCarrick as the archbishop of Washington after the ...

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Theodore E. McCarrick — the former archbishop of Washington and the highest American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church to ...

On the night of March 12-13, 2013, just hours before Cardinal Jorge Bergolio would be elected pope, young adults were ...

Doctors treating the pope said he can return to the ... following in the footsteps of his predecessor, Benedict XVI. But when asked whether resignation was a possibility, Vatican Secretary of ...