A century ago, Al Smith was a force in American politics—and the first Catholic to mount a major run at the White House. And ...

"Nothing is going to be off limits," he said Tuesday, speaking for the first time to thousands of U.S. Health and Human ...

Even while Pope Francis is hospitalized, he still keeps in touch with a Roman Catholic parish in Gaza City, making near-nightly phone calls to the priest and congregation there.

The pope remains hospitalized in Rome on Tuesday after doctors discovered a more complex respiratory tract infection than he ...

The Vatican did not mention the Angelus prayer, which the pope normally delivers at midday on Sunday, but which he missed ...

The Vatican said on Monday that doctors had changed the pope's drug therapy for the second time during his hospital stay to ...