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

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis is showing a "good response" to his hospital treatment for double pneumonia and his overall ...

With Pope Francis entering his fourth week in hospital, those working in the Apostolic Palace are grappling with the ...

Pope Francis "had a tranquil night and woke shortly after 8 a.m.," the Vatican said, coming a day after he made his first ...

The Vatican says Pope Francis is responding well to therapy for double pneumonia and has shown a “gradual, slight improvement ...

Pope Francis was hospitalized on Feb. 14 after suffering a bout of bronchitis for weeks and after increasingly finding it ...

Three weeks to the day after being admitted to Rome's Gemelli hospital, Pope Francis is still struggling to shake off the ...

People who gathered in St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City on Thursday to pray for Pope Francis got quite a surprise right at ...

The recorded message was the first released by the Vatican since Pope Francis was hospitalized with a respiratory illness on ...

Pope Francis suffered two episodes of acute respiratory failure Monday, the Vatican said, a fresh setback in the worst health ...

Francis, who has been in Rome's Gemelli Hospital since February 14, is again receiving "non-invasive, mechanical ventilation" ...