On Thursday morning the Vatican said that Pope Francis, after being admitted to the hospital the previous day for a respiratory infection, was showing signs of improvement and had spent the morning...

After repeated calls from Canadian Indigenous communities for the Catholic Church to rescind the so-called “Doctrine of Discovery,” the Vatican has disowned that position, but stopped short of...

The Vatican late Wednesday said that the pontiff will be hospitalized for “a few days” to treat a respiratory infection.