Time-honored rituals, drafted and refined over centuries, allow for ritual mourning and provide order at a dramatic moment of ...

Pope Francis' doctors "are prudently maintaining their cautious prognosis" as the pontiff's condition of respiratory and ...

The Vatican says Pope Francis remains in critical condition and blood tests show early kidney failure but he remains alert ...

Pope Francis remained in critical condition Monday but showed slight improvement in laboratory tests and resumed some work, ...

ROME and LONDON -- Pope Francis was "resting" on Monday morning after spending his 10th night in the hospital, the Vatican ...

Pope Francis continues to recover in a Rome hospital after a complex lung infection and is in "good spirits." Warren Buffett ...

Global media outlets, including CNN, CBS and NBC, are getting ready to descend upon Rome and Vatican City following reports ...

The combination of health issues has kept the Pope from performing his public duties, including weekly prayers on Sundays, ...

The Vatican No. 2, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, will lead the first prayer Monday. Francis, who has double pneumonia and is in ...