Pope Francis, who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by former President Joe Biden a few days before the end of ...

The history of the papacy is filled with unusual, dramatic events. From a pope put on trial after death to a resignation that ...

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

Here’s what we know about the pope’s condition, and about how things would go upon his eventual death. Francis was admitted to the Policlinico Agostino Gemelli, a Rome hospital, on Feb.

Pope Francis has written and spoken at length about sickness, aging and death, and personally directed that his doctors ...

Pope Francis has been hospitalized since Feb. 14 with bilateral pneumonia, and it's making some question whether he'll step ...

You can hate the death penalty and at the same time acknowledge its divine justice in the divine order of a God whose ...

March 13, 2025, marks Francis' 12th anniversary as pope. He holds the ninth longest papacy of the past 200 years.

The Vatican on Sunday released the first photograph of pope in more than a month, showing Pope Francis wearing a purple ...

The 88-year-old pontiff is now able to spend some time during the day off high flows of oxygen and use just ordinary ...

Pope Francis ' recovery from double pneumonia continued Wednesday as a chest X-ray confirmed improvement, two days after ...

ROME — Pope Francis has written and spoken at length about sickness, aging and death, and personally directed that his doctors provide the fairly detailed daily updates that have punctuated his ...