The Vatican houses the central government of the Catholic Church and is also an independent city-state. The pope is both the ...

This was the pope's "third serious downturn" since he was admitted to Gemelli Polyclinic hospital with a complex respiratory ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis suffered “two episodes of acute respiratory insufficiency” March 3 but remained alert, the ...

Elisabetta Piqué, an Argentine journalist and friend of Pope Francis, has stated that he will not resign his papacy amid his ...

Giuseppe Perazzo was one of the first to arrive outside the Gemelli hospital for the midday prayer. At the time, hospital ...

I was genuinely touched, and I found myself in tears during the prayer,” Chow told the Sunday Examiner, the official ...

The 88-year-old pope, who has chronic lung disease and had part of one lung removed as a young man, woke up after sleeping ...

Pope Francis, who suffered two respiratory crises on Monday as he battles double pneumonia, has stabilised and no longer ...

Pope Francis has spent 18 full days at Rome's Gemelli hospital recovering from double pneumonia. It's by far the longest ...

An informed Vatican source said today, “Pope Francis’ overall situation is stable, within the complexity of his clinical ...

Catholics are one of the largest religious groups in the United States, outnumbering any single Protestant denomination.

It is the sixth consecutive year that Pope Francis has not participated in a joint Lenten retreat with the cardinals of the ...