ROME (AP) — Pope Francis was up and receiving therapy on Monday after apparently overcoming a setback in his recovery from ...

The Vatican houses the central government of the Catholic Church and is also an independent city-state. The pope is both the ...

Reporting from Rome, Fox News' Lauren Green writes that papal historian Austen Ivereigh is trying to dispel rumors that Pope Francis might resign amid his current health crisis.

Pope Francis remained stable through the day on Sunday and no longer required the use of mechanical ventilation to breathe, ...

Pope Francis has made the news over his sickness.While the actual diagnosis is not public, the leader of the Catholic Church has been hospitalised for the last two weeks.He is undergoing treatment at ...

Pope Francis remained in stable condition and didn’t need any mechanical ventilation on Sunday, the Vatican said.

For the third week, Pope Francis missed leading the Angelus prayer at Saint Peter's Square as he battles with a lung illness.

Francis has weighed in publicly before on ethics for end-of-life medical situations, but it is unknown whether he has made ...

Cardinal Fernando Vérgez Alzaga, LC, president of the Governorate of Vatican City State and president of the Pontifical ...

Pope Francis had a "peaceful night" on Saturday, after recovering from a coughing fit. The news came in a Holy See press office update issued on the 88-year-old's condition Sunday morning.

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

Raffaella Petrini has been appointed as the first female President of the Vatican City State becoming the governor of the ...