ROME -- ROME (AP) — Pope Francis ’ doctors are providing their first in-person update on the pontiff’s condition in a month, ...

The head of Pope Francis' medical team says there was a crisis during the pontiff's battle with pneumonia so dire, they ...

A weak and frail Pope Francis left the hospital Sunday after surviving a five-week, life-threatening bout of pneumonia, ...

That day's Vatican medical bulletin said Francis "presented two episodes of acute respiratory failure, caused by significant accumulation of endobronchial mucus and consequent bronchospasm.

Doctors first diagnosed a complex bacterial, viral and fungal respiratory tract infection and soon thereafter, pneumonia in both ... manually aspirate the mucus, at which point he began sleeping ...

He later developed a life-threatening case of pneumonia.Pope Francis ’ doctors ... which required doctors manually aspirate the mucus, at which point he began sleeping with the ventilation ...

Here are highlights of the longest hospital stay of Pope Francis' 12-year papacy, based on details provided by the Vatican.