Conventional testing procedures often require a “spinal tap” in which a needle is inserted into the lower spine to retrieve ...

Memorial Masses for Pope Francis are expected across the world on Tuesday. In the Philippines, people packed the main hall of ...

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Pope Francis, a reformer who rattled the Catholic Church's conservatives and inspired some progressives, has died.

Pope Francis, the Roman Catholic Church’s first Latin American pontiff who was known for his progressive stances on social ...

The death of Pope Francis sets into motion a series of rituals, some of which go back more than 2,000 years, including how to choose the new pope. Here's what happens next.

In the last years of his papacy, the world saw the more serious, concerned and suffering face of Pope Francis. But with one group he was always beaming, always smiling and always ch ...

Behind closed doors, lobbying has been under way among small groups of like-minded cardinals for several years, with protagonists occasionally bringing in a couple of “outsiders’’ (often newly ...

New paths and processes However, Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, likely would not have wanted the concept of “first ...

A new study finds that fragments of tumor DNA in a patient's bloodstream could show that they are at high risk of a melanoma ...

Phlebotomy is the process of drawing blood from a vein, commonly done in lab testing to diagnose or watch different medical ...