Rome and Ostia to this day are dotted with remnants of Jewish heritage: a menorah on the bas-relief of the first-century Arch ...

ROME — Pope Francis was in critical but stable condition Tuesday as he worked from the hospital while battling double pneumonia, the Vatican said, also announcing some major governing decisions ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis remained in critical but stable condition Tuesday, with his blood parameters remaining stable as he works from the hospital while battling double pneumonia, the Vatican ...

The Vatican’s evening update said the 88-year-old pope underwent a follow-up CAT scan in Tuesday evening to check the lung infection. But it provided no details of what the scan showed ...

Pope Francis has met leading Vatican officials in hospital as he continues his recovery from pneumonia in both lungs. The pontiff, 88, who is receiving treatment at Rome's Gemelli hospital ...

Pope Francis has named two secretaries-general to serve under Sister Raffaella Petrini, FSE, in the Governorate of the Vatican City State, giving the Vatican’s first woman president “the ...

VATICAN CITY — Thousands of people gathered ... said they prayed for the pope at daily Mass earlier at St. Peter’s Basilica, and decided to come back. Like many, they found it “hard to ...

Pope Francis' health showed a "slight improvement" Monday as he "resumed work" at the hospital and called a priest at a parish in the Gaza Strip, the Vatican announced. "The clinical conditions of ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — While the Vatican has detailed laws and rituals to ensure the transfer of power when a pope dies or resigns, they do not apply if he is sick or even unconscious. And there ...

And at 21:00 (20:00 GMT) on Monday, those cardinals who are in Rome gathered outside St Peter's Basilica to lead prayers for the Pope, together with members of the Vatican curia and clergy from ...

Francis was supposed to celebrate Mass on Sunday morning in St. Peter's Basilica and ordain deacons as part of the Vatican's yearlong Holy Year commemoration. The organizer of the Holy Year ...

Pope Francis is “sitting in an armchair today and continuing with his treatment” for pneumonia, a Vatican source said Wednesday. In a medical update later in the day, the Vatican said the 88 ...