Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, the former head of the Vatican’s department of cultural affairs, raised the possibility of ...

The beloved religious institution is now the Basilica of St. Edward, just as church officials begin to plan a centenary ...

Vatican officials said that Pope Francis had developed pneumonia in both lungs, further complicating the pontiff’s recovery ...

In Italy, the pope's presence is so deeply woven into daily life that even the prospect of his death is met with lighthearted ...

Pope Francis, who is spending his fifth day in hospital, will not take part in this weekend's Holy Year events, the Vatican ...

As the pope enters his second week in a Rome hospital with a lung infection, his physicians said his condition was critical ...

Doctors say pneumonia in such a fragile, elderly patient makes him particularly prone to complications given the difficulty in being able to effectively expel fluid from his lungs ...