After five weeks of hospitalization with pneumonia, including moments where he came close to death, Pope Francis is back at ...

Pope Francis will on Thursday mark the 12th anniversary of his election as leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics, but he will do so from Rome's Gemelli hospital where he has been treated for ...

“We can walk as much as we want,” Pope Francis told the cardinals gathered for Mass the day after his election, “we can build many things, but if we do not profess Jesus Christ, things go ...

Along with the health care workers treating him, the pope – who has been hospitalized for nearly a month – had a small ...

He continues to receive high flows of oxygen through nasal tubes during the day ... mainstay of the Jesuit pope’s pontificate. Francis faces important milestones this week. On Thursday, he marks the ...

EACH TIME A pope takes ill, the winds of a conclave always feel as if they are blowing.”These are the words of Pope Francis ...

With Pope Francis, 88, in critical condition last week ... They will also prepare for the upcoming papal election, called a conclave. Cardinals are bishops and Vatican officials from all over ...

This idea is linked with Francis' call for a more "synodal ... whose primary purpose is to prepare for the election of the new pope and oversee day-to-day workings of the Vatican.

Pope Francis came so close to death at one point during his 38-day fight in hospital against pneumonia that his doctors ...