The Vatican said Francis, 86, would be put under general anesthesia and would be hospitalized for several days.

Pope Francis is going to the hospital for abdominal surgery Wednesday to treat an intestinal blockage, two years after he had ...

Pope Francis, 86, will have surgery on his abdomen on Wednesday afternoon at Rome's Gemelli hospital, the Vatican said in a ...

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 is to return to hospital to have abdominal surgery and will stay in hospital for several days, the Vatican press office said Wednesday. The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2023 Cable News Network, Inc., a ...

Francis is suffering from a blocked laparocele, The Associated Press reported. He will be undergoing a “laparotomy and abdominal wall plastic surgery with prosthesis” to treat ...

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.

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 on Tuesday appointed two new auxiliary bishops for San Diego who both immigrated to the U.S. as teenagers.

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.

One week after meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Pope Francis urged that “we must not get used to war” as he prayed for peace in Ukraine and Sudan. In his Regina Caeli ...

Pope Francis will have surgery on his abdomen on Wednesday afternoon at Rome's Gemelli hospital, the Vatican said in a statement. It added that his medical team had decided in recent days that surgery ...