March 8 (UPI) --Pope Francis was showing a "gradual, mild improvement" on his 23rd consecutive day in the hospital for treatment of double pneumonia, the Vatican said Saturday. Though a 88-year ...

Rome — The voice of Pope Francis was heard by the public on Thursday night for the first time since he was admitted to a hospital three weeks earlier. The message was recorded from the 88-year ...

LONDON (AP) — Friday marks three weeks since Pope Francis was hospitalized for bronchitis, which then led to double pneumonia. He was also treated for a complex lung infection and has suffered ...

Never.” While Cardinal Dziwisz said that John Paul remained lucid and able to govern the church to the end, stories abound about curial officials jockeying for power as the pope’s ...

The pope was wounded by gunshots in his abdomen and hand.June 20-Aug. 14, 1981 — 55 daysIn his longest hospitalization, John Paul underwent a minor surgical operation and was then treated for a ...

As one report states: 'In 1958, before the Conclave that would elect Pope John XXIII, Cardinal Spellman of New York hired a boat, filled it with sheep and sailed up and down the Tiber River ...

The book’s title, of course, comes from the Pope’s denunciation of Burton and Taylor’s affair on the Roman set of Cleopatra (“Where are we all going to end up?” John XXIII worried aloud ... a £127,000 ...

Yet these are the songs included in the “Pope Playlist” circulated around the ABC on Tuesday for staff to play in any segments they produce about Pope Francis’ death, which sadly looks imminent.

Pope Francis remained in critical but stable condition on Wednesday morning and has suffered no new respiratory crises as he recovers from double pneumonia, doctors have said. The Vatican provided ...

And the stomach cancer that afflicted Pope John XXIII for at least eight months was only revealed long after his death in 1963. "The old saying is that the pope's never sick until he's dead," said ...

One notable instance was the passing of Pope John XXIII in 1963. In response, President Diosdado Macapagal declared June 4–12, 1963, as a national period of mourning through Proclamation No. 116.