Pope Francis visited Rome's central prison Thursday and met with dozens of inmates as he kept an Easter season appointment to ...

The Vatican is opening the most solemn period of Holy Week with a recovering Pope Francis largely on the sidelines.

Pope Francis has long advocated for immigrants, refugees, and the vulnerable—but the Church, like other institutions, may ...

Although the pontiff has begun meeting with more people, he remains frail and will not lead important Easter events, the ...

Pope Francis surprised a St. Peter's Square, Vatican, congregation by appearing in a wheelchair toward the end of a mass for ...

Pope Francis stepped out for his first public appearance at the Vatican since being discharged from the hospital in late ...

Pope Francis made his first public appearance at the Vatican since he was discharged from the hospital on March 23 after a ...

Pope Francis made his first public appearance since being discharged from hospital two weeks ago after treatment for double ...

The pope, in a previously unannounced move, came out to the square shortly before noon at the end of the celebration of a ...

The 88-year-old pope was hospitalized on Feb. 14 after a long bout with bronchitis that left him breathless at times, and which quickly developed into double pneumonia and revealed a polymicrobial ...