Like his predecessors, Pope Francis was selected using an age-old method -- a system known as the Papal conclave.

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Pope Francis "rested well throughout the night" in the hospital, the Vatican says, and even met with Vatican officials to sign several documents linked to sainthood designations.

A scholar of global Catholicism writes how Francis has opened the church to the outside world in ways no pope had done before ...

The Vatican says Pope Francis, who is hospitalized in critical condition with double pneumonia, was well enough to meet with ...

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St. Vincent de Paul, one of the oldest Catholic churches in the city, will no longer house a parish as of July 1 but will ...