Pope Francis spends “a peaceful night” at Rome‘s Gemelli Hospital and has breakfast while sitting in an armchair on Thursday ...

The pope has begun working again after he showed slight improvement days after initially being listed in critical condition.

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Doctors said there has been a “slight improvement” in Pope Francis’ condition on Monday (Feb. 24) after ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- "Being ordained is not an ascent but a descent, whereby we make ourselves small, lower ourselves and ...

Pope Francis has shown “a slight improvement” in his health while being hospitalized for double pneumonia, but he is still ...

Pope Francis remained in critical condition Monday but showed slight improvement in laboratory tests and resumed some work, the Vatican said, including calling a parish in Gaza City that he has ...

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

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

Catholics worldwide, including in Connecticut, are praying for Pope Francis as he remains in critical condition Monday.

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

The Vatican says Pope Francis remains in critical condition but has showed slight improvement in laboratory tests. He has resumed some work activities, including calling a parish in Gaza City that he ...

Japan and its allied Philippines agreed to a "strategic dialogue" as a means to bolster defense tech and equipment ...