Pope Francis is making his first public appearance in five weeks before being discharged from the hospital where he was ...

Pope Francis was hospitalized on Feb. 14, after suffering a bout of bronchitis for weeks and after increasingly finding it ...

Pope Francis will be released from the hospital on Sunday, after 38 days battling a life-threatening case of pneumonia in ...

Francis has sought to normalize the papacy with his informal style and disdain for pomp while still wielding the awesome ...

And yet Francis’ critics often complain that he’s authoritarian, that he takes decisions in a vacuum and without regard to ...

The 88-year-old pontiff has been battling double pneumonia in both lungs after he was admitted to the hospital​ on Feb. 14.

J. P. Grayland, a priest of the Catholic Diocese of Palmerston North (New Zealand), currently visiting professor at the University of Tübingen (Germany). “This principle enables us to work ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Pope Francis, right, hugs Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI prior to the start of a meeting with elderly faithful ...

Later Saturday, another cardinal closely associated with Francis’ papacy, Canadian Cardinal Michael Czerny, presides over the nightly recitation of prayers for Francis. Czerny then returns on ...

He repeated that he had written a letter of resignation, but made clear the papacy was for life. “I did it in case I have some health problem that prevents me from exercising my ministry and I ...

The 88-year-old pope’s weakened condition has sidelined him for the longest stretch of his papacy and raised fresh concerns about his health and future. A weak and breathless Pope Francis ...