Pope Francis has shown a "further, slight improvement" in his medical condition, the Vatican said on Wednesday, in a sign of ...

People in Rome and the Vatican are relying on their faith as they cope with the daily anxiety waiting to hear about the ...

Concerns over Pope Francis' health have mounted in recent years as have questions about his succession. Here's what we know.

Gandhi’s Scant Garb Bars Audience with Pope.” So read the headline of a New York Times report, from December 13, 1931, that ...

Time-honored rituals, drafted and refined over centuries, allow time for mourning and provide order at a dramatic moment of ...

The Vatican continues to provide updates on Pope Francis' health and said the head of the Catholic Church had a "restful ...

Over the weekend, the Vatican announced serious complications in the recovery of Pope Francis. The 88-year-old pontiff, who ...

Francis, 88, has been in critical condition for several days and he has remained absent from several regular appearances. The ...

At least 80% of Catholics have expressed a favorable opinion of Pope Francis in 10 of the 15 U.S. surveys in which we have ...

The slight renal insufficiency the pope had in recent days subsided and a CAT scan of the chest showed a normal evolution of ...

As Pope Francis remains in critical condition fighting a complex respiratory infection and double pneumonia, world and ...

A scholar of global Catholicism writes how Francis has opened the church to the outside world in ways no pope had done before ...