Just outside the hospital, hundreds of the faithful with their own stories stop to pray every day at the feet of the statue ...

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

The Vatican says Pope Francis has continued making decisions and is improving, but his two-week hospital stay poses ...

Concerns over Pope Francis' health have mounted in recent years as have questions about his succession. Here's what we know.

The Vatican said doctors had to put him on noninvasive mechanical ventilation following a coughing fit in which he inhaled ...

Gandhi’s Scant Garb Bars Audience with Pope.” So read the headline of a New York Times report, from December 13, 1931, that ...

The 88-year-old pope who has been hospitalized in Rome since February 14, did not have any further respiratory crises ...

This was the first and only time a pope visited the Alamo City, drawing an estimated 350,000 people to his outdoor Mass at Westover Hills.

Pope Francis suffered two new acute respiratory crises Monday and was put back on noninvasive mechanical ventilation, in another setback to his battle to fight pneumonia, the Vatican said.

Holy Hours are bring held in Rome’s Gemelli Hospital where Pope Francis is being treated as well as at other places ...

The Vatican has set in motion nightly prayers for Pope Francis in the hope that he might recover and get back to leading the ...

SAN ANTONIO — Pope John Paul II made history when he visited San Antonio, Texas, on Sept. 13, 1987, as part of his nine-city tour of the United States. It was the first and only time a pope ...