ROME (AP) — Pope Francis was up and receiving therapy on Monday after apparently overcoming a setback in his recovery from ...

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

Little more than a week into his admission to hospital for respiratory ailments, Pope Francis was lately rumoured dead. But ...

Just outside the hospital, hundreds of the faithful with their own stories stop to pray every day at the feet of the statue ...

Pope Francis suffered two new acute respiratory crises and was put back on non-invasive mechanical ventilation in another ...

For nearly two millennia, the papacy has shaped world history, standing at the intersection of faith, politics, and power.

POPE FRANCIS I: (Through interpreter) Brothers and sisters, Jesus Christ is risen. He alone has the power to roll away the stone that blocks the path of life.

Pope Francis on Monday suffered two attacks of "acute respiratory insufficiency," the Vatican said, as the 88-year-old ...