Pope Francis is resting after an alarming setback in his two-week recovery from double pneumonia. The Vatican said doctors ...

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

A scholar of global Catholicism writes how Francis has opened the church to the outside world in ways no pope had done before ...

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

The Vatican reported Friday that he experienced sudden breathing problems that required “non-invasive mechanical ventilation” ...

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

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

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

Francis, spiritual leader to nearly 1.4 billion baptized Catholics worldwide, has spent the past dozen years of his papacy highlighting the struggles of migrants and asking the faithful to defend them ...

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

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