Many who know him said that Francis, driven by a sense of mission and a discipline born of his early training, essentially ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Pope Francis has been undergoing treatment at Rome's Gemelli Hospital, where he was admitted on February 14 after struggling ...

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

Pope Francis, who is being treated in hospital for double pneumonia, will not appear in public on Sunday to lead his usual ...

Doctors provided their first in-person update, confirming that Pope Francis will stay hospitalized through at least next week ...