Pope Francis was well enough to meet in the hospital with the Vatican secretary of state and his deputy to approve new decrees of candidates for possible sainthood, the Vatican said Tuesday.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio, aka Pope Francis, arrived to Ireland in January 1980, during the bleak Haughey-era economic recession.

It happened while you were sleeping. Here’s what the world agencies recorded from Monday night to Tuesday. Hundreds of ...

In a critical condition, Pope Francis does not forget his people in the region that is now devastated due to Israeli attacks.

Monday marks Pope Francis’ 10th day in the hospital, making this equal to the longest hospitalization of his papacy.

Hundreds of Argentines attended a special mass Monday for their countryman Pope Francis, hospitalized in a critical condition with pneumonia in Rome.

Hundreds of Argentines gathered in a central square in Buenos Aires Monday to pray for Pope Francis's health and recovery.

Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, 76, is Pope Francis' biggest critic, an anti-vaccine traditionalist papal lawyer who would be the ...

Pope Francis remains in hospital in a critical condition, with the Vatican saying he has presented a "slight improvement".

Pope Francis remained in critical condition Sunday, the Vatican said. Blood tests show initial, slight insufficiency in his kidney function, but the 88-year-old pontiff remains alert and well-oriented ...

A scholar of global Catholicism writes how Francis has opened the church to the outside world in ways no pope had done before ...