On Thursday, March 13, he celebrated the 12th anniversary of his election to the papacy with a cake brought to him by members ...

The doctors who cared for Pope Francis during his health battle over the past few weeks at one point thought there might be ...

Francis was admitted to Gemelli hospital on Feb. 14 after a bout of bronchitis worsened. He later developed a ...

Pope Francis made his first public appearance after a five-week-long health crisis, and he was finally dismissed from the ...

For the past month and a half, the world has waited for what seemed like the inevitable passing of Pope Francis.

WASHINGTON — Pope Francis is set to make his first public appearance in weeks on Sunday, greeting the public from his ...

Pope Francis will be released from the hospital on Sunday, after 38 days battling a life-threatening case of pneumonia in both lungs, his doctors said. Gemelli medical director Dr. Sergio Alfieri ...

Francis is very much still in power and leading the church, said Kurt Martens, a canon lawyer at Catholic University of ...

CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela is set to have its first female saint following approval from Pope Francis . On Monday, he paved the way for the canonization of Blessed María Carmen Rendiles by ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has shown ‘’a truly surprising improvement’’ since returning to the Vatican to convalesce after surviving a life-threatening bout with double-pneumonia ...

During his first foreign trip in 2013, Pope Francis made headlines when he carried his own black leather briefcase as he boarded the Alitalia charter bound for Brazil, since popes never carry bags ...

The Washington Post reported that 59% of Catholic ... we took for granted to stir a reckoning. May the illness of Pope Francis spur self-reflection among Catholics, but also all Americans, about ...