Time-honored rituals, drafted and refined over centuries, allow for ritual mourning and provide order at a dramatic moment of ...

Doctors say the pope's health situation is complicated because he had part of his lung removed in his 20s. Currently, his ...

Pope Francis' doctors "are prudently maintaining their cautious prognosis" as the pontiff's condition of respiratory and ...

The Vatican press office said there were "no episodes of asthmatic respiratory crisis" on Monday, and some laboratory tests ...

Daily evening prayers will be held for Pope Francis at the Vatican's St. Peter's Square as he remains hospitalized in Rome, ...

Pope Francis remained in critical condition Monday but showed slight improvement and resumed some work activities ...

ROME and LONDON -- Pope Francis was "resting" on Monday morning after spending his 10th night in the hospital, the Vatican ...

The combination of health issues has kept the Pope from performing his public duties, including weekly prayers on Sundays, ...

Mu gatondo k'ejo, Papa yarungitse ubutumwa busaba abanywanyi ba Ekleziya kumusabira, aho vyankiye ko ayobora igisabisho kizwi ...

A group of nuns, priests and students from a Catholic university gathered outside the Gemelli Hospital in Rome on Monday to ...

Pope Francis, 88, was resting Monday morning, his 10th day at the hospital for a complex lung infection that led to the early ...

The Vatican described his condition as critical for the first time on Saturday, reporting that the 88-year-old Francis needed ...