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) — After experiencing progressive improvement the past few days, Pope Francis experienced “an isolated ...

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 ...

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

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

ROME -- Pope Francis' condition appeared on Tuesday morning to stabilize after Monday's medical intervention amid two episodes of "acute respiratory failure," Vatican sources told ABC News.

I t's fairly common to hear people describing what they're "giving up for Lent" each year, but many of the details about Lent ...

On Monday, the Vatican announced that Pope Francis suffered two episodes of acute respiratory failure due to accumulated ...