The Gemelli hospital has been treating popes for more than thirty years.

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The beloved religious institution is now the Basilica of St. Edward, just as church officials begin to plan a centenary ...

Is the pope out of danger? No. Both doors are open. Is he at risk of immediate death? No. The therapy needs time to work,” Sergio Alfieri, a surgeon who has operated on the pope in the past, said ...

A British court has largely backed the Vatican and refused to declare that a London-based financier acted in “good faith” in ...

The method the Catholic Church uses to select their leader has remained virtually unchanged for the last 800 years ...

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

Colleen and Gerry discuss Pope Francis’ double pneumonia diagnosis and whether the U.S. and the Vatican can find any common ...

The pope looms so large in everyday Italian life that there are lots of expressions that make light of even a dark event like ...

The Catholic Church is almost 2,000 years old, and over the centuries, the protocol for papal funerals has been codified and ...

Vatican officials said that Pope Francis had developed pneumonia in both lungs, further complicating the pontiff’s recovery.