A health update on Pope Francis has described the pontiff as resting following a quiet night.

ROME — Pope Francis was resting Saturday after an alarming setback in his two-week recovery from double pneumonia: Doctors had to put him on noninvasive mechanical ventilation following a coughing fit ...

Speakers and attendees at the 2025 National Catholic Prayer Breakfast on Friday prayed for Pope Francis amid his ongoing ailments and emphasized a message of hope.

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

U.S. Vice President JD Vance led attendees at the 2025 National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in a prayer for Pope Francis’ ...

As the 88-year-old pope continued treatment, the development of the spasm and subsequent complication marked a setback in ...

There has long been a Vatican taboo against openly talking about a conclave when a pope is sick: It’s considered gauche to speculate about the election of a new pope while the current one is fighting ...

Speech is among our greatest gifts, yet self-mastery in speech is rare. Some of the most common sins we commit are related to speech: gossip, idle chatter, lies, exaggeration, harsh attack, and ...

Pope Francis suffered a bronchial spasm on Friday that resulted in him breathing in vomit, requiring non-invasive mechanical ventilation.

Amid ongoing health issues facing Pope Francis, here is the process by the Vatican when a pontiff passes away.