Francis, spiritual leader to nearly 1.4 billion baptized Catholics worldwide, has spent the past dozen years of his papacy ...

Pope Francis, 88, has been in Rome's Gemelli hospital for two weeks, after being admitted with a severe respiratory infection.

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis, who has been in the hospital for just over two weeks fighting double pneumonia, had a peaceful night and was resting on Saturday after a health setback the day before, the ...

The development marked a setback in what had been two successive days of increasingly upbeat reports from doctors treating ...

Vice President J.D. Vance led a prayer for Pope Francis and said Catholics shouldn't let political disputes hurt faith in ...

The Vatican said doctors had to put him on noninvasive mechanical ventilation following a coughing fit in which he inhaled ...

There has long been a Vatican taboo against openly talking about a conclave when a pope is sick: It’s considered gauche to ...

Francis had suffered a bronchospasm that resulted in “an episode of vomiting with inhalation” on Friday, causing a sudden worsening of his health.

Vance told the Catholic gathering he wasn’t there to litigate “about who’s right and who’s wrong,” though he said he would ...

Pope Francis experienced an isolated bronchial spasm resulting in a temporary setback in his hospitalization treatment for ...

By Elisabetta Povoledo and Jason Horowitz Reporting from Rome and Vatican City The Catholic world is gripped with uncertainty as Pope Francis, 88, remains in a Rome hospital because of a complex ...