Catholic bishops in the U.S. are calling on faithful to pray for Pope Francis, now in critical condition in Rome's Gemelli ...

Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory, the first African American cardinal, said Black History Month is always an opportunity to ...

Pope Francis experienced "an asthmatic respiratory crisis of prolonged magnitude, which also required the use of oxygen at high flows" Feb. 22, said the daily medical bulletin released by the Vatican.

Briefing reporters on Pope Francis' medical condition, two of his doctors also gave them glimpses of a patient who is physically fragile, but mentally alert, joking with staff and insisting on doing ...

Resilient matriarchs have never failed to inspire audiences. From Jane Darwell's Ma Joad in the 1940 screen version of John ...