The Vatican has released the first photo of Pope Francis since he entered the Gemelli Hospital in Rome on February 14.

Pope Francis was hospitalized on Feb. 14, after suffering a bout of bronchitis for weeks and after increasingly finding it ...

The pontiff’s bout with double pneumonia, and warnings that he could be significantly diminished, have accelerated ...

Pope Francis on Friday marked one month in the hospital where he is being treated for double pneumonia, with signs in recent ...

John XXIII, who was elected Pope in 1958, called an ecumenical council, only the twenty-first in the nearly two-thousand-year history of the Church. Paul VI left the Vatican for trips to Bombay ...

Canon law requires a papal resignation to be "freely and properly manifested" – as was the case when Benedict announced his resignation in 2013.In 1965, Pope Paul VI wrote letters to the dean of ...

Pope Francis arrives for a general audience at the Pope Paul VI Hall at the Vatican. Pope Francis' health remains in "critical" condition, according to the Vatican on Sunday, as an "initial ...

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

The pope rested peacefully overnight as he begins his 27th consecutive day in hospital this morning, the Vatican said.

In 1965, Pope Paul VI wrote letters to the dean of the College of Cardinals hypothesizing that if he were to become seriously ill, the dean and other cardinals should accept his resignation.