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The Roman Catholic Church has announced that Pope Francis was rushed to a hospital and will be admitted to the hospital.

Hearing the name Pope Francis in the same sentence as Burger King is bound to raise some eyebrows.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican says emeritus Pope Benedict XVI might join Pope Francis at the canonization ceremony of their predecessors John Paul II and John XXIII.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has encouraged Catholic doctors to refuse to perform abortions, issuing a strong pro-life message after blasting at the church's obsession with "small-minded rules" that are driving the faithful away.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican is offering indulgences for "virtual" participants of the upcoming World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro — but there's a hitch.

Pope John Paul II, who headed the Catholic Church from 1978 through his death in 2005, will soon officially become a saint. The sainthood was expected for the widely beloved pope, for whom thousands of Catholics chanted "Santo subito" ("Sainthood now”) in St...

Jorge Bergoglio, the 76-year-old archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina, has been elected as pope. He is the first Latin American to lead the Catholic Church. Bergoglio, who has taken the name Francis I, is also the first Jesuit priest to become pope.

The technologically-savvy Pope Benedict XVI has already encouraged priests to blog and helmed the launch of the Vatican’s YouTube channel and Pope2You mobile and Facebook apps. So it’s really no surprise that as part of his newly-launched news portal, the pontiff sent his first tweet recently — from the papal iPad. You can follow the Vatican on Twitter at @news_va_en.