Pope Francis had a 'quiet' night and is resting the Vatican said this morning. It comes after a setback in his two-week recovery from double pneumonia which saw doctors put him on ventilation. Medics ...

Doctors decided to keep Pope Francis' prognosis guarded and indicated they needed 24 to 48 hours to evaluate how and if the ...

Pope Francis was resting Saturday after an alarming setback in his two-week recovery from double pneumonia: Doctors had to put him on noninvasive mechanical ventilation following a ...

There has long been a Vatican taboo against openly talking about a conclave when a pope is sick: It’s considered gauche to speculate about the election of a new pope while the ...

Like millions of people around the globe, a college student from Sioux Falls is closely following daily updates on the health of Pope Francis. Katie Jensen, a ...

A scholar of global Catholicism writes how Francis has opened the church to the outside world in ways no pope had done before ...

Pope Francis reached the two-week mark in his recovery from pneumonia Friday as doctors suggested he had overcome the most critical phase of the infection but held out on declaring him out of danger ...

The Vatican said Francis, 88, who has been hospitalized for pneumonia, was responding well to treatment and that it was too ...

The Vatican reported Friday that he experienced sudden breathing problems that required “non-invasive mechanical ventilation” ...

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