By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Rome Pope Francis is dead at 88, the Vatican announced. Follow live updates and read his full obituary. Pope Francis on Wednesday held an audience with dozens ...

Last week, Saint Francis was on the wrong end of a thriller when Alabama State's Amarr Knox's game winner knocked the Red Flash out of the NCAA tournament. That First Four game might have been ...

Pope Francis waved to hundreds of people gathered outside Rome's Gemelli hospital on Sunday as the pontiff left the hospital after surviving a life-threatening bout of pneumonia. In his first ...

Pope Francis, 88, could be seen in the front seat of a white Fiat 500. ROME -- Pope Francis made his first public appearance on Sunday since being hospitalized in Rome more than five weeks ago.

Pope Francis will be discharged from the hospital on Sunday — five weeks after he was admitted for treatment for double pneumonia, the doctors treating the pontiff announced Saturday.

Doctors taking care of Pope Francis considered ending their treatment at one point as there "was a risk that he would not make it," a report said. Gemelli Hospital medical director Dr. Sergio ...

Rome — An interview published on Tuesday with the head of Pope Francis' medical team has revealed new details about just how grave a health situation the 88-year-old leader of the Catholic ...

After five weeks of hospitalization with pneumonia, including moments where he came close to death, Pope Francis is back at home in the Vatican recovering. Now, the attention in the Vatican is on ...

Pope Francis has arrived home at the Vatican after leaving the Gemelli University Hospital in Rome, shortly after making his first public appearance following a five-week hospitalisation for a ...

In an interview, the leader of Pope Francis’s medical team called it “a miracle” that the 88-year-old pontiff left the hospital, but said he needs to change his vigorous habits, at least for ...

(RNS) — It was a close call, but Francis’ emergence from Gemelli Hospital ensures that implementation of the Synod on Synodality's goals will outlast him. (RNS) — Just when it looked like ...