Pope Francis has come down with a serious illness that could potentially force him to resign, but who would succeed him?

The pope looms so large in everyday Italian life that there are lots of expressions that make light of even a dark event like his death. “A pope dies, they ...

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

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ROME -- Pope Francis marked the one-week point Friday in his hospital stay, getting up to eat breakfast as the 88-year-old ...

Pope Francis is responding “positively” to medical treatment for pneumonia, according to the Vatican, a week after the 88-year-old pontiff was hospitalized in Rome.

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