Pope Francis will be released from hospital on Sunday, his doctors have said, after 38 days battling a life-threatening case ...

The Vatican on Sunday released the first photograph of Pope Francis in more than a month, showing the pontiff in a three-quarter view from behind wearing a purple stole typical of Lenten liturgical ...

The flag of Vatican City will not fly over Toronto City Hall to mark the annual St. John Paul II Day for the first time in nearly two decades. Recent changes in religious imagery policies will see the ...

A nun praying in St. Peter's Square while watching a TV screen as the rosary prayer for Pope Francis was transmitted from inside the Paul VI Audience Hall in the Vatican on March 10. A nun praying ...

(AP video shot by Isaia Montelione / produced by Francesco Sportelli) As Pope Francis spent a fourth Sunday in a row in hospital the Vatican’s day-to-day operations continued alongside celebrations of ...

“The night passed quietly, the pope is resting,” the Vatican said in its early morning update. The 88-year-old pope, who has chronic lung disease and had part of one lung removed as a young ...

Gov. Maura Healey announced that state and national flags will fly at half-staff in Massachusetts today, March 7 to honor United States Navy Ensign Oliver Cole of Beverly. A graduate of the ...

The Vatican has expressed its solidarity with Muslims participating in the Ramadan fast, noting that Catholics also fast and do penance during the season of Lent and inviting greater dialogue and ...

An old Vatican book dating back a whopping 900 years seems to have predicted when the world is coming to an end - and it's not very far off. You'd be forgiven for being sceptical, seeing as we've ...

Apple has replaced the flag used by the ousted regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad with the Syrian independence flag associated with the 2011 revolution and used by the current Syrian interim ...

Pope Francis was well-rested and woke up just after 08:00 local time (07:00 GMT) on Wednesday, the Vatican said. The Vatican said the Pontiff - who has been in hospital since February to receive ...

In its latest update, the Vatican said that the pope rested well overnight, waking up shortly after 8am Pope Francis remained in stable condition, with a guarded prognosis, meaning he was not out ...