Pope Francis was hospitalized with a respiratory tract infection and now has pneumonia in both lungs. He has been hospitalized since last week.

Pope Francis' respiratory infection also includes asthmatic bronchitis, requiring cortisone and antibiotic treatment.

Serious questions about the line of succession have risen after the health of Pope Francis has continued to decline and ...

SINCE the Second Vatican Council — which took place from 1962 to 1965 with the aim of updating the Catholic Church and making ...

As Pope Francis, the oldest pope in over a century, continues to decline in health, speculation is percolating as to who will ...

Pope Stephen VI recalled the liturgy after being deceived by the German opposition. [1] In 7th century Britain, before English was even a language, Caedmon, a monk of Whitby, paraphrased most of ...

Profession of faith of Pope Vigilius I (552): DS 415 ... infinitely beyond all that we can humanly understand'. [Paul VI, CPC # 2.]" 252. "The Church uses (I) the term 'substance' (rendered ...

At his introductory press conference in April 2019 on the morning when Pope Francis had named him as the new archbishop of ...

The Vatican is carrying on with its Holy Year celebrations without the pope. Pope Francis remains hospitalized with pneumonia ...

Pope Francis’ medical team says the pontiff's condition isn’t life-threatening. But they said Friday that Francis isn't out ...

As the pope enters his second week in a Rome hospital with a lung infection, his physicians said his condition was critical ...