Pope Francis marked the 12th anniversary of his pontificate Thursday in the hospital — the first pope to do so in modern church history — as he received increasingly positive medical news on his ...

For much of the church’s history, the pope’s body was closely associated with the sanctity of his office, as the papal ...

Pope Francis's situation is stable but his recovery from double pneumonia in a Rome hospital, also considering his age, is ...

Pope Francis on Friday marked one month in the hospital where he is being treated for double pneumonia, with signs in recent ...

Pope Francis marked a month in hospital Friday, with football players sending him messages of support for his recovery from ...

Pope Francis received a surprise on the 12th anniversary of his papacy in the form of a cake. Pope Francis is having to ...

Pope Francis was hospitalized on Feb. 14, after suffering a bout of bronchitis for weeks and after increasingly finding it hard to speak publicly ...

Pope Francis celebrated 12 years of his pontificate with a cake brought to him by doctors from Rome's Gemelli Hospital, where ...

Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s Secretary of State, celebrated Mass for Pope Francis’s health and recovery ...

In recent weeks, worrying health bulletins about the pope may have led to the belief that his death was imminent, sparking ...

Pope Francis has now been receiving treatment in hospital for four weeks, with his 28th night at Gemelli Hospital in Rome ...

The 88-year-old pope has not been seen by most faithful since a general audience on February 12 in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall ...