Previous Vatican updates indicated that the 88-year-old pontiff has been able to receive the Eucharist, rest, read, and work.

If you really want him to rest, you have to hospitalize him,” quipped one cardinal about the notoriously active pope.

Pope Francis, 88, is facing a severe pneumonia-related health crisis, raising global concerns. The Vatican confirmed he is ...

Pope Francishas shown a "slight improvement", is alert and got out of bed to eat breakfast on Thursday, the Vatican said, as ...

The Catholic Church is almost 2,000 years old, and over the centuries, the protocol for papal funerals has been codified and ...

While Pope Francis battles pneumonia in hospital, work at the Vatican, headquarters of the 1.4 billion-member Catholic Church ...

Pope Francis was admitted to Rome’s Gemelli Hospital on Friday, Feb. 14, to undergo testing and treatment for bronchitis, the ...

Italian nun Sister Raffaella Petrini was named Saturday as president of the Vatican City State. That makes her essentially ...

Catholic leaders called upon the faithful to pray for Pope Francis in Italy and his native Argentina on Wednesday, after the ...