The pope has suffered from pneumonia in both lungs and experienced a “long asthmatic respiratory crisis” over the weekend.

At the University of San Diego, some Catholic students grew up with Pope Francis as the head of the Catholic Church. They say ...

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

The D.C. region is home to hundreds of thousands of people of the Catholic faith, many of them saying extra prayers for the ...

The Vatican has detailed laws and rituals to ensure the transfer of power when a pope dies or resigns, but not when he is ...

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

Pope Francis is in critical condition at Gemelli Hospital in Rome with double pneumonia and kidney failure — and Catholics ...

WKYT spoke to lexington Catholic Church members about Pope Francis. Some stories are very personal. “He’s the one that named ...

His age and prolonged illness have raised questions about whether he might resign, and revived interest about how papal power ...

Francis’ papacy has been historic. He embraced the marginalized in ways that no pope had done before. He not only deepened the Catholic Church’s commitment to the poor in its religious life but also ...

Vatican officials Monday said Pope Francis remained in critical condition, but has shown slight improvement in laboratory ...

It comes after an update released yesterday said the Pontiff, 88, remained in a "critical" condition but has not presented ...