Pope Francis was admitted to Rome’s Gemelli Hospital on Friday, Feb. 14, to undergo testing and treatment for bronchitis, the ...

The pope looms so large in everyday Italian life that there are lots of expressions that make light of even a dark event like ...

While Pope Francis battles pneumonia in hospital, work at the Vatican, headquarters of the 1.4 billion-member Catholic Church ...

The Catholic Church is almost 2,000 years old, and over the centuries, the protocol for papal funerals has been codified and ...

The Vatican reported another slight improvement in Pope Francis's condition on Thursday, as the 88-year-old spent his seventh day in hospital being treated for double pneumonia. "The clinical ...

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni visited Pope Francis for 20 minutes in the hospital Wednesday and reported he was “alert and ...

Speculation over Pope Francis' final resting place has intensified following reports that the Vatican has begun rehearsing his funeral as concerns about his health mount. Unlike his predecessors, who ...

The “School of Arts and Crafts” of the Fabbrica di San Pietro is offering a free, six-month training course with a ...

The pope is susceptible to lung infections after he developed pleurisy as an adult and had part of a lung removed at age 21.