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

The combination of health issues has kept the Pope from performing his public duties, including weekly prayers on Sundays, ...

The Vatican says Pope Francis remains in critical condition but has showed slight improvement in laboratory tests.

Pope Francis is being treated for double pneumonia and recent blood tests also revealed "mild renal insufficiency." ...

Pope Francis remained in critical condition Monday but showed slight improvement and resumed some work activities ...

A group of nuns, priests and students from a Catholic university gathered outside the Gemelli Hospital in Rome on Monday to ...

ROME and LONDON -- Pope Francis was "resting" on Monday morning after spending his 10th night in the hospital, the Vatican ...

Daily evening prayers will be held for Pope Francis at the Vatican's St. Peter's Square as he remains hospitalized in Rome, ...

The pontiff's condition is touch-and-go, given his age, fragility and pre-existing lung disease, according to doctors.

Pope Francis, 88, was resting Monday morning, his 10th day at the hospital for a complex lung infection that led to the early ...