Although 30 million Christian pilgrims will flock to Rome’s for its Catholic Jubilee, visitors can avoid feeling overwhelmed ...

The Vatican houses the central government of the Catholic Church and is also an independent city-state. The pope is both the ...

Clutching a bouquet of yellow roses, 79-year-old Carmela Vittoria Mancuso makes her way to Rome's Gemelli hospital each ...

Vatican City, the world's smallest country, hasn't seen a birth in 96 years due to its unique population of celibate clergy ...

Pope Francis "remained stationary" on Wednesday, "without showing any episodes of respiratory failure," but rested peacefully ...

The pope, who has chronic lung disease, has been stable for two days after suffering two respiratory crises Monday.

On Ash Wednesday, observant Catholics receive a sign of the cross in ashes on their foreheads, a gesture that underscores ...

Despite his illness, age and hospitalization, Pope Francis is still demonstrating his deep faith and exercising his role as ...

Pope Francis is resting after sleeping through the night with a ventilation mask as he undergoes hospital treatment for double pneumonia.

Pope Francis has spent 19 full days at Rome's Gemelli hospital, however, it doesn't come close to approaching the record-long ...

On Ash Wednesday, observant Catholics receive a sign of the cross in ashes on their foreheads, a gesture that underscores human mortality. It is an obligatory day of fasting and abstinence for ...