The pope looms so large in everyday Italian life that there are lots of expressions that make light of even a dark event like ...

If you really want him to rest, you have to hospitalize him,” quipped Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline, the archbishop of Marseille ...

Pope Francis was admitted to Rome’s Gemelli Hospital on Friday, Feb. 14, to undergo testing and treatment for bronchitis, the ...

Pope Francis is "slightly improving" and his blood analyzes are stable, the Vatican said on Thursday, in the latest sign of ...

The process of electing a new pope follows rules and rituals that have been followed, and sometimes tweaked, since the 13th ...