A little over a week after returning to the Vatican guesthouse to convalesce, the pope was showing gradual improvements in ...

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Pope Francis is no longer using mechanical ventilation for help breathing at night and his doctors believe he will continue ...

published by the Vatican on Thursday, makes no mention of the pope's presence but does include the solemn blessing "Urbi et Orbi" (to the city and the world). This is traditionally given by the ...

VATICAN CITY - The sanctuary of Lourdes, one of the world's most popular Catholic pilgrimage sites, began on Monday to cover up a series of mosaics made by a prominent priest with ties to the Vatican ...

February 11, 1929 – The signing of the Lateran Pacts between the Holy See and Italy establishes Vatican City State, the smallest independent nation in the world, covering only 109 acres.

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has suspended the use of an oxygen mask, the Vatican said on March 19, adding that the 88-year-old’s clinical condition was “improving” after more than one ...

Catholics and others worldwide have been praying for his speedy recovery VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis is to leave hospital on Sunday and return to his residence in the Vatican, where he is to spend ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis offered prayers to the victims of a powerful earthquake in Southeast Asia on Friday, the sixth day of his convalescence in the Vatican after a five-week ...

We are happy to say that tomorrow he will be at home,” Dr. Sergio Alfieri, the head of the team taking care of the pontiff ...

The pope had continued leading the global Church even from hospital, making usual appointments of Catholic bishops around the world ... on the Vatican's south wall near the city-state's small ...