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

Pope Francis, head of the Roman Catholic Church, has held his title for 12 years. What to know about the Jesuit.

In a late update, the Vatican said Francis hadn’t had any more respiratory crises since Saturday night but was still ...

Pope Francis, battling double pneumonia, remains in a critical condition for a second day running and has shown an “initial, ...

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni visited Pope Francis for 20 minutes in the hospital Wednesday and reported he was “alert and ...

Pope Francis remained in critical condition and blood tests showed kidney insufficiency but, according to the Vatican, he ...

Catholic leaders called upon the faithful to pray for Pope Francis in Italy and his native Argentina on Wednesday, after the ...

Pope Francis has been hospitalized for nearly two weeks for a complex lung infection that has brought on the initial phases ...

ROME — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni visited Pope Francis for 20 minutes in the hospital ... they have teamed up constructively on a campaign to reverse Italy’s low birthrate.

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