Doctors say the pope's health situation is complicated because he had part of his lung removed in his 20s. Currently, his ...

As Pope Francis remains critically ill, students and faculty at the University of Dallas are praying for his healing.

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

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

Pope Francis remained in critical condition as the Vatican called senior church officials in Rome to a special saying of the ...

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

A scholar of global Catholicism writes how Francis has opened the church to the outside world in ways no pope had done before ...

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

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

Pope Francis, 88, was resting Monday morning, his 10th day at the hospital for a complex lung infection that led to the early ...

The Vatican described his condition as critical for the first time on Saturday, reporting that the 88-year-old Francis needed ...