VATICAN CITY — During his first foreign trip in 2013, Pope Francis made headlines when he carried his own black leather briefcase as he boarded the Alitalia charter bound for Brazil, since popes ...

At a news conference, they said he would need two months of rest and convalescence at the Vatican, but that he eventually could resume all his normal activity running the 1.3.-billion strong ...

A Weak Pope Francis Is Wielding Power and Rewriting the Narrative of How Popes Exercise Authority VATICAN ... while also continuing to run the 1.3-billion strong Catholic Church.

Many recite the joke about the way Jesuit superiors exercise power, which is supposed to be a process of joint discernment between the superior and the underling but, the joke goes, can be ...