After 38 days in hospital battling double pneumonia almost entirely out of sight, Pope Francis made his first public ...

The Vatican may have been home to a series of 16 erotic frescos that were quickly turned into a booklet with accompanying ...

Watch out for that bat behind you,” warned Luca Messina, a civil engineer who moonlights as a speleo-archaeologist with ...

From a balcony, Francis greeted hundreds of people waiting outside the hospital where he had been treated for respiratory ...

The pope's return home, after the longest hospitalization of his 12-year papacy and the second-longest in recent papal ...

Pope Francis returned home to the Vatican on Sunday after more than five weeks in hospital with pneumonia, taking time before ...

Pope Francis has returned home to the Vatican after he was hospitalized for five weeks with a life-threatening bout of ...

Pope Francis gestures as he appears at a window of the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome, Sunday, March 23, 2025, where he ...

Pope Francis on March 23 appeared in public for the first time in five weeks since his hospitalization began on Feb. 14.

And yet Francis’ critics often complain that he’s authoritarian, that he takes decisions in a vacuum and without regard to ...