Pope Francis is still critically ill as he battles double pneumonia, but his condition has shown a "slight improvement", the ...
Time-honored rituals, drafted and refined over centuries, allow for ritual mourning and provide order at a dramatic moment of ...
Concerns over Pope Francis' health have mounted in recent years as have questions about his succession. Here's what we know.
Pope Francis, 88, was resting Monday morning, his 10th day at the hospital for a complex lung infection that led to the early ...
The combination of health issues has kept the Pope from performing his public duties, including weekly prayers on Sundays, ...
A scholar of global Catholicism writes how Francis has opened the church to the outside world in ways no pope had done before ...
The Vatican described his condition as critical for the first time on Saturday, reporting that the 88-year-old Francis needed ...
The Vatican press office said there were "no episodes of asthmatic respiratory crisis" on Monday, and some laboratory tests ...
The pontiff's condition is touch-and-go, given his age, fragility and pre-existing lung disease, according to doctors.
Just days before falling ill, Pope Francis sent a letter to U.S. bishops, saying that treating migrants as criminals and using forceful methods would “end badly.” ...