The medical staff looking after Pope Francis considered stopping his treatment so he could die, according to the lead doctor, ...

The 88-year-old pontiff has been hospitalized for six weeks with pneumonia in both lungs. He will need to rest in the Vatican ...

Two of Pope Francis’ closest advisers are predicting that he will recover from pneumonia and that a “new stage” in his ...

Francis is well aware that anytime he has gone into the hospital, the plotting has begun for electing the next pope, ...

Francis rejected all trappings of sovereignty and cult of personality. Instead, he has lived and preached what Jesus ...

Pope Francis’ recovery from double pneumonia continues. As a chest X-ray has confirmed improvement. Doctors earlier this week ...

After a pope's death, the College of Cardinals have 20 days to elect a new pontiff, though they typically will do so within about two weeks of a pope's funeral. When it's time to vote for a new ...

If so, the ballots are burned with chemicals to create white smoke, which is sent billowing from the chimney to signal the impending formal announcement of a new pope. White smoke billows from the ...

They created a canonical crowdsourcing initiative to craft a new church law regulating the office of a retired Pope as well as norms to apply when a Pope is unable to govern, either temporarily or ...

I can say that it has certainly been a very hard time for him, this month, for him who loves to give himself entirely, to be ...

and beginning the process of planning for the funeral and the election of a new pope. Pedestrians pass a shop selling Pope Francis souvenirs in Rome, Italy Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty ...