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

Worshippers continue to pray for Pope Francis outside the Gemelli hospital in Rome, where the 88-year-old head of the ...

Pope Francis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio) has thanked medical doctors and healthcare workers for their service and tenderness of ...

Pope Francis, who is receiving treatment for pneumonia, has been in hospital since February 14. As he entered another week in ...

Pope Francis has not been seen in public since entering hospital, his longest such absence since his papacy started nearly 12 ...

The Argentine pope, who has chronic lung disease and had part of one lung removed as a young man, has remained in stable ...

The Pontiff has spent more than three weeks in hospital in Rome, Italy, as he battles with double pneumonia. The Pontiff has ...