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

But Francis was also echoing St. Peter’s own recognition of his sinfulness, as he responded to Jesus when he first called him ...

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 ...

From murder and bribery to putting a dead pope on trial—these scandalous popes took church corruption to shocking new heights ...