ROME (AP) — Pope Francis continued to improve from double pneumonia Thursday, the Vatican said, working from his hospital ...

The Vatican says Pope Francis has continued making decisions and is improving, but his two-week hospital stay poses ...

The Vatican has not announced Pope Francis is resigning, contrary to online claims. Further, his successor would be elected ...

Despite his hospitalization, the pope has maintained a degree of governance and authorized the appointment of four new ...

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

Pope Francis has transformed the church from an institution in which a few called the shots to a church of the people of God.

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

Due to the complexity of the clinical picture, further days of clinical stability are needed to clarify the prognosis,” the ...

As Pope Francis' health continues to look uncertain, Catholics around the globe are praying for his recovery, including here ...