The Vatican has detailed laws and rituals to ensure the transfer of power when a pope dies or resigns, but not when he is ...

Pope Francis "rested well" during his 11th night in hospital in Rome, the Holy See said on Tuesday. Despite a slightly ...

Pope Francis met with the Vatican's secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, on Monday as he rested comfortably ...

Despite his hospital stay, Pope Francis remains in charge of the Catholic Church. But what if his health continues to decline ...

Entrusting the pope "to the powerful intercession of most holy Mary," the cardinal said, "may she sustain him in this time of ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis, hospitalized in critical condition with double pneumonia, was well enough to meet with the Vatican ...

Pope Francis’s “clinical condition remains critical but stable” and the “prognosis remains guarded,” the Vatican’s evening ...

Health professionals, patients, family members and members of the board of the foundation that oversees Rome’s Gemelli ...

Pope Francis remained in critical condition as the Vatican called senior church officials in Rome to a special saying of the ...

U.S. President Donald Trump reiterated his idea of emptying Gaza of more than 2 million Palestinians so it could become a ...

The Vatican’s Tuesday noon bulletin contained a series of significant decisions, most importantly that Francis had met with ...