ROME—The pope looms so large in everyday Italian life that there are lots of expressions that make light of even a dark event like his death. “A pope dies, they make another,” goes one, suggesting how ...

BEFORE anything else and apropos to the title, a brief silence and a solemn petition to God for Pope Francis, who is battling ...

Pope Francis, hospitalized for pneumonia and respiratory infections, is not in life-threatening condition but remains under ...

The Vatican carried on with its Holy Year celebrations without the pope Saturday, as Pope Francis battled pneumonia and a ...

Pope Francis is "responding to therapy" for double pneumonia at a hospital in Rome but it not "not out of danger," the ...

The Vatican said on Saturday said Pope Francis, who is being treated in hospital for double pneumonia, will not appear in ...