Pope Francis, head of the Roman Catholic Church, has held his title for 12 years. What to know about the Jesuit.

Pope Francis is in critical condition in a Rome hospital, 10 days after he sought out treatment for bronchitis. The ...

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

The Vatican announced on Monday that it will hold a rosary for Pope Francis's health in the evening in St. Peter's Square.

Pope Francis was conscious but still receiving high flows of supplemental oxygen Sunday following a respiratory crisis and ...

Pope Francis returned to social media more than a week after he was hospitalized and diagnosed with double pneumonia, and ...

Roman Catholic parishioners and priests in Massachusetts prayed Sunday for Pope Francis's full recovery amid growing concern ...

Francis is being treated for pneumonia, a complex infection and kidney problems that have left him in critical condition. He ...

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

The pope has been hospitalized for over a week at Rome's Gemelli Hospital in critical condition for a respiratory infection.

Built on land donated by Pope Pius XI to the theologian and physician Agostino Gemelli in 1934, it has become known as the ...

The cast of “Conclave” is praying for Pope Francis. The film’s stars Ralph Fiennes, Isabella Rossellini, John Lithgow and ...