In his early 20s, Pope Francis underwent surgery to remove a part of his lung affected by a severe respiratory infection.

Pope Francis canceled his weekend jubilee audience on Saturday as he continued to be hospitalized on Tuesday in stable ...

Pope Francis has the onset of double pneumonia, the Vatican said on Tuesday, complicating treatment for the 88-year pontiff ...

A hospitalized Pope Francis is receiving prayers for a quick recovery from some Long Island Catholics even as they ...

In 2021, he had more than a foot of his large intestine removed due to what the Vatican described as severe inflammation and ...

Antônio Lemos, a Ph.D. candidate in Notre Dame’s theology department whose research focuses on migration ethics in Catholic ...

The pontiff, 88, was rushed to Rome's Gemelli hospital on Friday with significant chest pain, having resisted calls to leave ...

Pope Francis directly and sharply responded in a letter to U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance, who had asserted that charity ...

In an extraordinary intervention, Pope Francis also took aim at Vice President JD Vance's theological justification for the ...

Catholic leadership in the United States is suing Donald Trump ’s administration to reverse the president’s abrupt suspension of tens of millions of dollars in funding for refugee resettlement, which ...

As officials in Washington, D.C., and Moscow prepare to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr ...

At his introductory press conference in April 2019 on the morning when Pope Francis had named him as the new archbishop of ...