COMMENTARY: However, vigils for popes, like the current one for Pope Francis, have been the exception, not the rule.

Like his predecessors, Pope Francis was selected using an age-old method -- a system known as the Papal conclave.

Some reports said top global religious figure, Pope Francis, has died. Amid the anxiety surrounding the Pope's health, ...

Pope Francis "rested well throughout the night" in the hospital, the Vatican says, and even met with Vatican officials to ...

PINE BELT, Miss. (WDAM) - Nearly twelve years into his tenure, Pope Francis remains hospitalized in critical condition. This event is on the minds of many Catholics near and far, despite the papacy’s ...

Pope Francis' condition has not improved fundamentally despite spending 12 days in hospital in Rome, though his condition is ...

Concerns over Pope Francis' health have mounted in recent years as have questions about his succession. Here's what we know.

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis, hospitalized in critical condition with double pneumonia, was well enough to meet with the Vatican ...

The resignation of Pope Benedict XVI has demonstrated the process by which a pope might step down and be replaced.

Eleven days after the pope was hospitalized, speculation is mounting and prayers for his recovery verge on a vigil.

A man revered by millions as the “doctor of the poor” will be the first saint from Venezuela. Pope Francis approved a decree ...

"There have been no acute respiratory episodes and hemodynamic parameters continue to be stable. In the evening, he underwent a scheduled CT scan for radiological monitoring of the bilateral pneumonia ...