Pope Francis is continuing his slow recovery from double pneumonia and beating back speculation of an imminent death, ...

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

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

Catholics in Rome gathered to pray outside the hospital where Pope Francis is being treated and remains in a 'critical' ...

This was the first and only time a pope visited the Alamo City, drawing an estimated 350,000 people to his outdoor Mass at ...

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

Pope Francis continues to be in serious but stable condition as he concludes his 12th day in Rome’s Gemelli Hospital, the ...

The pope looms so large in everyday Italian life that there are lots of expressions that make light of even a dark event like ...

The Gemelli hospital has been treating popes for more than thirty years.

The Vatican said ailing Pope Francis had a peaceful night in the hospital and was up and sitting in an armchair on Wednesday ...

Pope Francis has remained in the hospital battling double pneumonia since Feb. 14. In the latest update from the Vatican, the ...