Pope Francis was back making jokes following an abdominal operation that went off without any complications, the surgeon in ...

The Vatican says Pope Francis has been admitted to a Rome hospital for abdominal surgery after developing a hernia linked to ...

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 ...

Pope Francis was still pope, fully in charge of running the Vatican and the 1.3-billion strong Catholic Church, even while ...

Here is a look at the life of Pope Francis, the current pope and first non-European pontiff of the modern era. Personal Birth ...

Rep. Paul Gosar, a Republican from Arizona in his third term in Congress, attracted more attention than he ever has before by announcing that he would boycott Pope Francis’s speech to his ...

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

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis was admitted to the hospital for surgery Wednesday to repair a hernia in his intestine, the latest malady to befall the 86-year-old pontiff who had part of his colon removed ...

Pope Francis underwent a successful, three-hour operation on his abdomen, the Vatican said Wednesday, after renewed fears ...

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.