Pope Francis says he has no plans to resign and isn’t suffering from any health problems that would require doing so, saying in a new memoir he still has "many projects to bring to fruition." Francis, ...

On Thursday afternoon - a bit less than 24 hours since the 133 cardinals started to debate over who would be the next pope, no one had been chosen, but merchants outside the Sistine Chapel were not ...

Whether it's black smoke or white smoke billowing from the chimney on the Sistine Chapel, the souvenir business in the Vatican is thriving even without news of a new pope. "Rome is always touristy," ...

Rallying from a winter-long bout of respiratory problems, Pope Francis led some 30,000 people in Easter celebrations Sunday and made a strong appeal for a cease-fire in Gaza and a prisoner swap ...

In his role as a missionary and prior general of the Augustinian order, the future pope traveled extensively, particularly in ...

Kentucky won the opening tip in its first road game of the season. On the Wildcats’ first possession, Jaxson Robinson — on his 22nd birthday — hit a stepback 3-pointer to give his team the lead right ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI's successor will face a daunting array of challenges — from rekindling the weakening flame of the faith in the West to reforming the Vatican bureaucracy, and from ...