Francis has sought to normalize the papacy with his informal style and disdain for pomp while still wielding the awesome power of the papacy.

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

The 88-year-old is expected to be released from the hospital on Sunday after surviving a life-threatening bout of pneumonia.

Pope Francis made his first public appearance in more than five weeks on Sunday, waving to people and giving a thumbs up from ...

ROME -- ROME (AP) — Pope Francis ’ doctors are providing their first in-person update on the pontiff’s condition in a month, ...

Pope Francis plans to make his first public appearance since he was hospitalized more than a month ago on Sunday, greeting ...

The pope experienced “two very critical episodes that were life threatening" during his hospitalization, his doctors said.

Pope Francis will be discharged from the hospital on Sunday and return to his residence at the Vatican, his doctors announced ...

A doctor at a hospital in Rome where Pope Francis has been treated for "acute respiratory failure" said Saturday the Holy ...

Pope Francis was released home to the Vatican following a hospitalization in which he suffered two respiratory episodes that ...

The pope's return home, after the longest hospitalization of his 12-year papacy and the second-longest in recent papal ...