Pope Francis will miss the Angelus prayer on Sunday for the second straight week as the 88-year-old is treated in hospital for pneumonia, the Vatican said Saturday. The text will only be published, ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...