Pope Francis has entered the fifth week of hospital treatment for double pneumonia very much looking ahead as he continued ...

Pope Francis approved a new three-year process to consider reforms for the global Catholic Church, the Vatican said on ...

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

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 ...

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

Pope Francis is having to celebrate the 12th anniversary of his papacy in the hospital, as he's been hospitalized at Rome's ...

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

Resigning the papacy is not like stepping down from being the president of a company or CEO of a large corporation. There are no term limits, no board, and it is considered a job for life.

He also chose to live simply, forsaking the pomp and pageantry of the papacy. Secondly, he changed the way the Catholic church’s message is communicated. In his programmatic document ...

Prior to becoming pope, he was Jorge Mario Bergoglio, archbishop of Buenos Aires, and was the first person from the Americas to be elected to the papacy. He was also the first pope to choose ...

Pope Francis remained in critical condition Monday but showed a slight improvement in laboratory tests and resumed some work activities, including calling a parish in Gaza City that he has kept in ...

While the Vatican has established comprehensive laws and rituals to manage the transfer of power when a pope dies or resigns, these protocols do not apply if a pope falls seriously ill or becomes ...