The combination of health issues has kept the Pope from performing his public duties, including weekly prayers on Sundays, ...

Pope Francis is still critically ill as he battles double pneumonia, but his condition has shown a "slight improvement", the ...

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

Pope Francis remained in critical condition as the Vatican called senior church officials in Rome to a special saying of the ...

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

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

Pope Francis, 88, was resting Monday morning, his 10th day at the hospital for a complex lung infection that led to the early ...

The Vatican says the Pope's condition has improved as he spends an 11th day in hospital with double pneumonia.

The Vatican described his condition as critical for the first time on Saturday, reporting that the 88-year-old Francis needed ...

ROME and LONDON -- Pope Francis was "resting" on Monday morning after spending his 10th night in the hospital, the Vatican ...

Daily evening prayers will be held for Pope Francis at the Vatican's St. Peter's Square as he remains hospitalized in Rome, ...

The cast of "Conclave" made sure to send Pope Francis well wishes at the Screen Actors Guild Awards Sunday night.