Pope Francis marked the 12th anniversary of his pontificate Thursday in the hospital — the first pope to do so in modern church history — as he received increasingly positive medical news on his ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has marked the 12th anniversary of his pontificate in the hospital as he received increasingly ...

Pope Francis received a surprise on the 12th anniversary of his papacy in the form of a cake. Pope Francis is having to ...

Reporting from Rome, Fox News' Lauren Green writes that papal historian Austen Ivereigh is trying to dispel rumors that Pope ...

By the time of the First Council of Nicaea (325 AD), the Bishop of Rome had begun gaining influence, laying the foundation for what would become the papacy. With the fall of the Western Roman ...

ROME — The recovery of Pope Francis from double pneumonia continued Wednesday as he inched toward notching some important milestones in his papacy: The 12th anniversary Thursday of his election as ...

Just as Popes John Paul II’s and Benedict’s final days revealed their understandings of the papacy, Francis’ illness has ...

ROME – Pope Francis has been in the hospital for the longest stay of his papacy, more than two weeks now. And while the latest updates from the Vatican report a slow and steady improvement from ...