While Pope Francis battles pneumonia in hospital, work at the Vatican, headquarters of the 1.4 billion-member Catholic Church ...

Vatican officials cleared his schedule through the weekend due a “complex” infection plaguing the 88-year-old pontiff.

The condition, which entails pneumonia in both lungs, is potentially grave, according to health experts. Pope Francis, who ...

His doctors said “the pope is fine” and “working,” though they cautioned that he remains in significant danger as he fights a ...

When a pope dies, after the camerlengo certifies the passing, the pope's ring is removed and destroyed to mark the end of his ...

The pope is receiving occasional supplements of oxygen when he needs it and is responding to the strengthened drug therapy he ...

The Catholic Church is almost 2,000 years old, and over the centuries, the protocol for papal funerals has been codified and ...

Pope Francis has been in and out of the hospital several times over the past few years, previously undergoing abdominal ...

Pope Francis has spent a peaceful night at Rome’s Gemelli hospital and continues his recovery today, Vatican spokesman Matteo ...

The U.S. border czar has pushed back against Pope Francis' criticism of the U.S. mass deportation of migrants plan.

The Vatican says Pope Francis’ respiratory tract infection is presenting a “complex clinical picture” that will require ...

In a newly written letter to Catholic bishops in the United States, Pope Francis has strongly condemned one of Trump’s ...