The pope’s embrace of literature and history is a sharp contrast to some of his predecessors, a medievalist explains.

Pope Francis is “in good humor” and “receives much affection” from people worldwide, the Vatican spokesman said on April 1.

A little over a week after returning to the Vatican guesthouse to convalesce, the pope was showing gradual improvements in ...

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

In this episode of “Inside the Vatican,” host Colleen Dulle and veteran Vatican correspondent Gerard O’Connell walk us ...

Following a lengthy, five-week hospital stay at Rome's Gemelli Hospital while battling pneumonia, including moments where ...

An interview on economics and Catholic social teaching with Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize winning economist and a ...

The 88-year-old pontiff has been hospitalized for six weeks with pneumonia in both lungs. He will need to rest in the Vatican ...

Before leaving the hospital, the pope blessed a cheering crowd of over 3,000 people gathered in the courtyard chanting his ...

Pope Francis has named the new bishop of the Diocese of Pagadian in Zamboanga del Sur following the death of Bishop Ronald ...

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

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis will be released from the hospital on Sunday, after 38 days battling a life-threatening case of ...