By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Rome and Vatican City In the days after the Vatican announced on Feb. 6 that Pope ...

ROME—The pope looms so large in everyday Italian life that there are lots of expressions that make light of even a dark event like his death. “A pope dies, they make another,” goes one, suggesting how ...

BEFORE anything else and apropos to the title, a brief silence and a solemn petition to God for Pope Francis, who is battling ...

The 88-year-old pontiff, who was admitted to the hospital last week, is being closely monitored by doctors as he undergoes treatment.

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis’ complex respiratory infection isn’t life-threatening but he’s not out of danger, his medical team ...

In the Diocese of Rome, Cardinal Baldassare Reina urged parishes to hold an hour of silent adoration before Mass. In Pope ...

ROME – The Vatican carried on with its Holy Year celebrations without the pope Saturday, as Pope Francis battled pneumonia ...

Pope Francis began a second week in hospital on Saturday, alert but still "not out of danger", as top cardinals sought to ...

Pope Francis is "responding to therapy" for double pneumonia at a hospital in Rome but it not "not out of danger," the ...

The Vatican says Pope Francis had a "good rest" overnight as he is being treated for double pneumonia in a Rome hospital. The ...

ROME (CNS) -- Briefing reporters on Pope Francis' medical condition, two of his doctors also gave them glimpses of a patient ...

Doctors on Friday said the 88-year-old Francis is "not out of danger" ​and that the main threat facing him would be the onset ...