Pope Francis, hospitalized in critical condition with pneumonia in both lungs, was showing a "slight improvement", the ...

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

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

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.

Francis is being treated for pneumonia, a complex infection and kidney problems that have left him in critical condition. He ...

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, will lead a public recitation of the rosary at 9 p.m. Feb. 24 in St.

The Vatican No. 2, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, will lead the first prayer Monday. Francis, who has double pneumonia and is in ...

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