The frail 88-year-old Catholic leader suffered further setbacks in what has become a more than two-week battle to overcome a ...

As Pope Francis has battled double pneumonia at Rome's Gemelli hospital since Feb. 14, the Vatican has been trying something ...

Pope Francis has spent 18 full days at Rome’s Gemelli hospital recovering from ...

Pope Francis has spent 18 full days at Rome's Gemelli hospital recovering from double pneumonia. It's by far the longest ...

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

Pope Francis suffered two new episodes of acute respiratory crises Monday and was put back on noninvasive mechanical ...

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

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