The Vatican said as of Tuesday morning, Francis no longer needed to wear the mechanical ventilation mask that covers his nose and mouth to pump oxygen into his lungs.

The respiratory insufficiencies were caused due to accumulation of a large amount of endo-bronchial mucus that required ...

Vatican provides update on Pope’s new health crisis - Pope Francis has suffered further setbacks in his fight against ...

Pope Francis "experienced two episodes of acute respiratory failure, caused by a significant accumulation of endobronchial ...

The decision as to who will succeed Cardinal Christoph Schönborn as Archbishop of Vienna is likely to be a long time coming.

Pope Francis, who has been in the hospital since February 14 for double pneumonia, experienced two episodes of acute ...

Just before breaking the Ramadan fast on Sunday evening, Hasan Zaheda played basketball with his son in the tiny courtyard of ...

The pope has been undergoing treatment for double pneumonia and a complex infection in a Rome hospital, and his condition has ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis was up and receiving therapy on Monday after apparently overcoming a setback in his recovery from ...

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

Argentines have long waited for Pope Francis to visit the homeland he left in 2013 to become the head of the Roman Catholic ...

ROME -- Pope Francis "rested well" overnight, his 17th night in Rome's Gemelli Hospital, the Vatican said on Monday. "The pope rested well all night," the Holy See, the Vatican's press office, said in ...