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

Pope Francis on Monday suffered two attacks of "acute respiratory insufficiency," the Vatican said, as the 88-year-old ...

Upon learning that I covered the Vatican for The Associated Press in the late 1960s and early 1970s, people will sometimes ask me, “Did you ever meet the pope?” The answer is yes — two ...

Pope Francis marked the 12th anniversary of his papacy Thursday with increasingly positive medical updates four weeks into ...

While he may not regularly break bread with American neoconservatives that way the past two popes were known to do, it's an unfair and inaccurate charge to levy against history's first pope from ...

Francis, who has been in Rome's Gemelli Hospital since February 14, is again receiving "non-invasive, mechanical ventilation" ...

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

After more than two weeks of hospitalization, Gemelli medical staff said the Pope’s prognosis 'remains guarded.' ...

Pope Francis experienced two episodes of acute respiratory failure on March 3 and had to resume receiving oxygen through a ...

Pope Francis experienced another setback today with “two episodes of acute respiratory insufficiency” caused by “a ...