Pope Francis is resting after sleeping through the night with a ventilation mask as he undergoes hospital treatment for ...

The pope on Wednesday marked the start of Lent by receiving ashes on his forehead and by calling the parish priest in Gaza, ...

As Pope Francis has battled double pneumonia in hospital for nearly three weeks, talk of the 88-year-old pontiff's death or ...

The Vatican says that Pope Francis has suffered two new episodes of acute respiratory crises and has been put back on ...

Pope Francis has suffered a serious setback in his two-week battle with double pneumonia. Newsweek's live blog is closed.

Doctors said it would take a day or two to evaluate how and if the episode impacted Francis’ overall clinical condition. His ...

The Vatican said that Monday’s two crises were caused by a significant accumulation of mucus in his bronchial tubes.

The Vatican said Francis, 88, who has been hospitalized for pneumonia, was responding well to treatment and that it was too ...

After a scary setback in his recovery from double pneumonia, Pope Francis was drinking coffee and reading the newspaper Saturday morning. The fact that he was able to drink the beverage signaled ...

Cardinal Michael Czerny, head of the Vatican’s development office, said in an interview with Italy’s La Stampa newspaper that Francis was getting better but “slower than we would like”.

Pope Francis, 88, has been in Rome's Gemelli hospital for two weeks, after being admitted with a severe respiratory infection.