While Pope Francis battles ailing health in the hospital, CNN’s Christopher Lamb examines just how unprecedented the ...

Pope Francis is resting after sleeping through the night with a ventilation mask as he undergoes hospital treatment for ...

The Vatican appears to have modified its position against gender-affirming surgery and “gender theory” last year, raising the ...

The Vatican houses the central government of the Catholic Church and is also an independent city-state. The pope is both the ...

The pope "rested well" and woke shortly after 8 a.m. this morning, his 20th day in hospital, as his condition remains stable ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Pope Francis’ condition remained stable on Wednesday (March 5), according to a Vatican statement ...

Pope Francis, who has been struggling to overcome double pneumonia for almost three weeks, had a restful night in hospital, ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis was resting Wednesday, the start of the solemn Lenten period leading up to Holy Week ...

Francis remained in stable condition, with a guarded prognosis, meaning he was not out of danger, the Vatican said.

An Irish bishop from the 12th century wrote a cryptic Latin work in which he claimed to know the sequence of popes.

On Ash Wednesday, observant Catholics receive a sign of the cross in ashes on their foreheads, a gesture that underscores human mortality. It is an obligatory day of fasting and abstinence for ...