John Paul spent so much time on the 10th floor papal suite that he referred to Gemelli as “Vatican III” — a reference that ...

The pope "rested well" and woke shortly after 8 a.m. Wednesday morning, his 20th day in the hospital, the Vatican said.

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis ... lighting candles and praying at the foot of a statue of former pope John Paul II. “I’m very sad,” Rome retiree Assunta Pandolfi told AFP, but he said he ...

Pope Francis has spent 18 full days at Rome's Gemelli hospital recovering from double pneumonia. It's by far the longest ...

Pope Francis experienced a "sudden worsening of the respiratory picture" Friday, the Vatican said, when he had an "isolated crisis of bronchospasm," which is when the muscles that line the airways ...

Pope Francis' condition remains "stable" in hospital with no further bouts of breathlessness, the Vatican said late on ...

Pope Francis, who has been in hospital for two weeks with double pneumonia, is in a “stable” condition, with no recurrence of the previous day’s breathing crisis, the Vatican said on Saturday.

For nearly two millennia, the papacy has shaped world history, standing at the intersection of faith, politics, and power.

As Pope Francis remains hospitalized in Rome, thousands of faithful from around the world have been gathering by St. Peter's and by the hospital to pray the rosary for him.

By Elisabetta Povoledo and Jason Horowitz Reporting from Rome and Vatican City The Catholic world is ... placed on a raised pedestal. When John Paul II died in 2005, his body was first brought ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis suffered two new acute respiratory ... means reaching the papal record that was set during St. John Paul II’s numerous lengthy hospitalizations over a quarter century.

A seminarist prays at the statue of John Paul II outside the Gemelli University ... In its early Tuesday update, the Vatican said: “The pope slept through the night, now rest continues.” ...