Francis is an 88-year-old man who has had a serious problem but who is now undergoing treatment. It’s not a simple treatment ...

On his sixth full day in Rome's Gemelli hospital, "the Holy Father's clinical condition is improving slightly," the Vatican said.

The pope looms so large in everyday Italian life that there are lots of expressions that make light of even a dark event like his death.

If you really want him to rest, you have to hospitalize him,” quipped Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline, the archbishop of Marseille ...

As Pope Francis continues to recover, Catholics in the pope's Diocese of Rome and around the world joined in prayer for his ...

Pope Francishas shown a "slight improvement", is alert and got out of bed to eat breakfast on Thursday, the Vatican said, as ...

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

If the news concerning Pope Francis’s health problems is concerning Catholics all over the globe, in Argentina it is ...