Pope Francis was released from Rome’s Gemelli Hospital, where he has been battling double pneumonia for the past five weeks, ...

Pope Francis was released home to the Vatican following a hospitalization in which he suffered two respiratory episodes that ...

After Francis' appearance at the hospital, he's expected to leave the facility by car and return to the Vatican.

Francis is well aware that anytime he has gone into the hospital, the plotting has begun for electing the next pope, ...

“It’s terrible,” Pope Francis gasped during a breathing crisis last month. The pope, his hand bruised with needle pricks and his oxygen saturation dipping to a dangerously low 78 during his ...

he held my hand for a few minutes, as if seeking comfort." Doctors have prescribed two months of rest and limited activity for Pope Francis now that he is back at the Vatican, and told him to ...

The top U.N. official in South Sudan is warning that the country is teetering on the edge of renewed civil war.

Those around Francis, he said, had “tears in their eyes.” And at one difficult moment the pope held Alfieri’s hand for comfort. But Francis – not for the first time – surprised people.

The pope will return to his residence at the Vatican. Pope Francis will be discharged from the hospital on Sunday and return to his residence at the Vatican, his doctors announced at a press ...