The Vatican distributed a message from the pope in which he thanked his doctors for their care and well-wishers for their ...

Cardinal Fernando Vérgez Alzaga, LC, president of the Governorate of Vatican City State and president of the Pontifical ...

Pope Francis continues recovery from pneumonia, receives visitors, and expresses gratitude for prayers and solidarity from ...

The Vatican announced on Tuesday that Francis had appointed Archbishop Emilio Nappa and layman Giuseppe Puglisi-Alibrandi to ...

The Vatican has detailed laws and rituals to ensure the transfer of power when a pope dies or resigns, but not when he is ...

Feb. 25 (UPI) --Pope Francis met with the Vatican's secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, on Monday as he rested comfortably throughout the night into Tuesday but remained in critical ...

THE Pope wrote his resignation letter 12 years ago in case he became too ill to fulfil the holy role as he remains in a 'critical' state in hospital. The Pontiff has spent 10 nights in Rome's ...

The Argentine, who underwent the removal of part of a lung when he was young, has been hospitalized since February 14, and ...

Standing on the same stage where Francis usually presides, the Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, said that ever since Francis had been hospitalized, a chorus of prayers for his ...