Cardinal Fernando Vérgez Alzaga, LC, president of the Governorate of Vatican City State and president of the Pontifical ...

The Vatican has detailed laws and rituals to ensure the transfer of power when a pope dies or resigns, but not when he is ...

Pope Francis is resting as he continues his recovery from double pneumonia. But for the third weekend in a row, he's skipping ...

When Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, welcomed Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda to the Vatican March ...

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, reads Pope Francis' speech at the high-level segment for heads of state and government at COP28, the U.N. Climate Change Conference Dec. 2 in ...

Feb. 25 (UPI) --Pope Francis met with the Vatican's secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, on Monday as he rested comfortably throughout the night into Tuesday but remained in critical ...

THE Pope wrote his resignation letter 12 years ago in case he became too ill to fulfil the holy role as he remains in a 'critical' state in hospital. The Pontiff has spent 10 nights in Rome's ...

The Argentine, who underwent the removal of part of a lung when he was young, has been hospitalized since February 14, and ...