Doctors said it would take a day or two to evaluate how and if the Friday afternoon episode impacted Francis’ overall ...

Pope Francis, 88, has been in Rome's Gemelli hospital for two weeks, after being admitted with a severe respiratory infection.

There has long been a Vatican taboo against openly talking about a conclave when a pope is sick: It’s considered gauche to ...

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis, who has been in the hospital for just over two weeks fighting double pneumonia, had a peaceful night and was resting on Saturday after a health setback the day before, the ...

The development marked a setback in what had been two successive days of increasingly upbeat reports from doctors treating ...

Pope Francis experienced an isolated bronchial spasm resulting in a temporary setback in his hospitalization treatment for ...

Francis had suffered a bronchospasm that resulted in “an episode of vomiting with inhalation” on Friday, causing a sudden worsening of his health.

By Elisabetta Povoledo and Jason Horowitz Reporting from Rome and Vatican City The Catholic world is gripped with uncertainty as Pope Francis, 88, remains in a Rome hospital because of a complex ...

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

Popular author and preacher Francis Chan was recently questioned by fellow pastors who are trying to get their heads around Chan's decision to leave his megachurch. "I'll be honest. Everybody thinks ...