If you really want him to rest, you have to hospitalize him,” quipped one cardinal about the notoriously active pope.

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

Pope Francis has come down with a serious illness that could potentially force him to resign, but who would succeed him?

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

Vatican reports Pope Francis showing improvement after week-long hospitalization for pneumonia and respiratory infection.

ROME -- Pope Francis marked the one-week point Friday in his hospital stay, getting up to eat breakfast as the 88-year-old ...