leaving plenty of room for suspicion and speculation. By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Vatican City The story circulating among Vatican journalists goes that after Pope Francis was admitted ...

In the most upbeat bulletin in days, the Vatican said Francis had resumed work from his hospital room, calling a parish in Gaza City that he has kept in touch with since the war there began.

The director is not sentimental and shows the stark reality: the pope's death means a body to be packed and an empty throne. The cardinals gathered in the Holy Father's room are silent ...