On a recent weekend in this once deeply Catholic city, many expressed worry about Pope Francis, but there was also an air of ...

Pope Francis is resting following a coughing fit which saw the head of the Catholic Church inhale vomit that needed to be ...

After Pope Francis suffered a setback on Friday, doctors said it would take 24 to 48 hours to determine whether the crisis ...

Pope Francis is recovering today after suffering a "sudden worsening of his respiratory condition," the Vatican said.

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

Cardinals today still have the chance to lobby behind closed doors for their favored candidate during a conclave. The divine ...

In the late Friday update, the Vatican said the 88-year-old suffered an “isolated crisis of bronchial spasm,” a coughing fit in which Francis inhaled vomit, that resulted in a “sudden worsening of the ...

On the occasion of the Jubilee of Marian Spirituality, scheduled for Oct. 11–12, the original statue of Our Lady of Fátima ...

Pope Francis, 88, has been hospitalized in Rome since February 14 due to a severe respiratory tract infection that led to ...

Life imitates art as Pope Francis fights pneumonia while ‘Conclave’ heads into Oscars - The Vatican traditionally avoids ...

We have come in the Christian year to the season of Lent. Beginning on Ash Wednesday, which falls this year on March 5.

Pope Francis had coffee and was reading newspapers Saturday after doctors had to put him on noninvasive mechanical ...