Pope Francis got sick at the start of the Vatican’s Holy Year, the once-every-quarter-century celebration of Catholicism.

Every year on Feb. 22, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of the Chair of St. Peter, a tradition that dates back more ...

Briefing reporters on Pope Francis' medical condition, two of his doctors also gave them glimpses of a patient who is physically fragile, but mentally alert, joking with staff and insisting on doing ...

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 ...

As Pope Francis, the leader of the Catholic Church, remains hospitalised with double pneumonia, discussions about his ...

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

When a pope dies, after the camerlengo certifies the passing, the pope's ring is removed and destroyed to mark the end of his ...

If you really want him to rest, you have to hospitalize him,” quipped one cardinal about the notoriously active pope.

His doctors said “the pope is fine” and “working,” though they cautioned that he remains in significant danger as he fights a ...

As the pope enters his second week in a Rome hospital with a lung infection, his physicians said his condition was critical ...

Pope Francis, in hospital with pneumonia, is not out of danger and will have to stay at least another week, his doctors said ...