Anxious waiting mixed with disturbing medical jargon — anyone who has sat bedside with a loved one can relate.

Cardinal Blase Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago, and Chicago-born Cardinals Robert Prevost and Wilton Gregory would be part of the papal conclave that elects a new pope. Experts say a selection from the United States is unlikely.

Hundreds gathered for Sunday mass at New York City’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral to pray for Pope Francis, who remains in critical condition after he was diagnosed with double pneumonia.

For the faithful who have descended on Rome for an event that comes every 25 years, the absence of the pope has been especially deeply felt.

ROME — Pope Francis woke up and was continuing his therapies Monday after a quiet night, on the 10th day of his hospitalization for a complex lung infection that has provoked the early stages of kidney insufficiency, the Vatican said.

The Vatican says Pope Francis has continued making decisions and is improving, but his two-week hospital stay poses uncomfortable, unanswered questions about Vatican decision-making.

Since the 13th century, the embalmed body of the deceased pope has been taken, in procession, to lie in state, on a raised pedestal, in St. Peter's Basilica. However, in 2024, Pope Francis "decided to highlight humility over glorification",

Experts are saying that French astrologist and soothsayer, Michel de Nostredame — or Nostradamus — may have already predicted Pope Francis’ death and successor.

James Hill for The New York Times “I’m being told that there was some document prepared by Benedict on this issue,” Archbishop Gallagher said, referring to Francis’ predecessor ...

“I believe Pope Francis will be known as one of the most ... a professor of theology at Fordham University in the Bronx, New York. Still, nearly a dozen years after the Pope's initial statement ...

Francis is being treated for pneumonia, a complex infection and kidney problems that have left him in critical condition. He did some light work on Monday. By Emma Bubola and Gina Kolata Emma ...