A chest X-ray confirmed improvements, the Vatican said Wednesday, just two days after doctors declared Francis is no longer ...

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

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

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 ...

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" ...

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 ...

The Vatican says that Pope Francis has suffered two new episodes of acute respiratory crises and has been put back on ...

Pope Francis on Monday suffered two attacks of "acute respiratory insufficiency," the Vatican said, as the 88-year-old pontiff's health struggles continue. Doctors performed two procedures known ...