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.

The Vatican press office said there were "no episodes of asthmatic respiratory crisis" on Monday, and some laboratory tests ...

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.

The Vatican described his condition as critical for the first time on Saturday, reporting that the 88-year-old Francis needed ...