Pope Francis spends “a peaceful night” at Rome‘s Gemelli Hospital and has breakfast while sitting in an armchair on Thursday ...

The pope has begun working again after he showed slight improvement days after initially being listed in critical condition.

Catholics worldwide, including in Connecticut, are praying for Pope Francis as he remains in critical condition Monday.

The Pope has now been in the hospital for 11 days and doctors say his prognosis remains uncertain as so many around the globe ...

The Vatican has announced the start of nighttime prayers for the health of Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Square.

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Doctors said there has been a “slight improvement” in Pope Francis’ condition on Monday (Feb. 24) after ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- "Being ordained is not an ascent but a descent, whereby we make ourselves small, lower ourselves and ...

The latest from the Vatican on Monday morning indicated that Pope Francis remains in critical condition receiving treatment ...

Christian hope is not optimism or wishful thinking. Hope is a theological virtue, essential to our faith, pointing us toward ...

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

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

A scholar of global Catholicism writes how Francis has opened the church to the outside world in ways no pope had done before ...