Pope Francis was admitted to hospital with what was initially said to be a check up on Wednesday Pope Francis' health is improving after he was taken to hospital with a respiratory condition, the ...

Almost two months after being hospitalized for bronchitis, Pope Francis thanked the doctors that caught the infection in a ...

Pope Francis will have surgery on his abdomen and remain in a Rome hospital for several days, the Vatican said on Wednesday ...

Pope Francis has had three hospitalizations since he was elected pope in 2013, and underwent major surgery as a young man to ...

In response to reporters, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said, “Due to a feverish state, Pope Francis did not hold any ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. The topics Francis tackles do not offer much to smile about. Poverty, homelessness, suffering, climate change are not exactly issues that ...

Its sheer size suggests the wisdom — although probably the futility, too — of Pope Francis’s plea that his apostolic exhortation “on love in the family” be read “patiently and ...

Mario Jose Francisco Bergoglio (R), the pope’s father, had come to Argentina from Italy’s Piedmont region with his parents and five siblings in 1928 The pope, Barbaro said, is a “Peronist ...

Pope Francis raised some eyebrows while discussing sex abusers, whom he labeled “children of God” who deserve love and “pastoral care” — as well revolting “enemies” who must be punished.

The announcement that Pope Francis will meet with Kirill ... atop a crumbling civil society with vast demographic and public-health problems — is an expression of the damage done by Lenin ...

Pope Francis warned the Vatican's missionary fundraisers on Saturday not to allow financial corruption to creep into their ...

Pope Francis last week told editors of the European cultural magazines of the Society of Jesus that, in his opinion, World War III had been declared, it was reported Tuesday by La Civilta Cattolica.