A secret meeting, and echoes of Benedict’s exit, have heightened talk that Francis could resign, too. But the possibility is ...

The pope was admitted to hospital on February 14 where he is fighting a complex respiratory infection and pneumonia in both ...

(AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) FILE-- A mosaic icon of Pope Francis is lifted to be placed next to the icon of Benedict XVI ...

Pope Benedict XVI waves to well-wishers in the penultimate day of his papacy ... and church officials tasked with selecting ...

Can a sick pope continue to govern the Catholic Church? Who replaces him when he is no longer capable? The question arises as ...

Concerns over Pope Francis' health have mounted in recent years as have questions about his succession. Here's what we know.

As the pope enters his second week in a Rome hospital with a lung infection, his physicians said his condition was critical ...

Francis was admitted to Rome's Gemelli hospital on Feb. 14 after a case of bronchitis worsened; doctors later diagnosed a ...

Concerns over Pope Francis' health have mounted in recent years as have questions about his succession. Here's what we know.

Francis, who lost part of a lung to a respiratory infection in his youth and has been plagued by ailing health recently, last ...

Cardinals, according to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), are bishops and Vatican officials from all ...

Pope Francis marked the one-week point Friday in his hospital stay, getting up to eat breakfast as the 88-year-old pontiff ...