While the Vatican has detailed laws and rituals to ensure the transfer of power when a pope dies or resigns, they do not ...

Pope Francis, 88, was resting Monday morning, his 10th day at the hospital for a complex lung infection that led to the early ...

Doctors have said the pope's condition is touch-and-go, given his age, fragility and pre-existing lung disease.

Pope Francis, who has been in hospital for 10 days now, is critical with mild signs of kidney failure. There is growing ...

In a brief statement shared on Monday morning by the Holy See Press Office, it read: "The night went well; the Pope slept and ...