Pope Francis made his first public appearance Sunday since his weeks-long hospital stay, greeting the crowd in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican.

After being hospitalized for life-threatening double pneumonia, the 88-year-old pontiff thanked the faithful in St. Peter's ...

Pope Francis made a surprise entrance to St. Peter’s Square during a special Jubilee Mass for the sick and health workers on ...

Pope Francis has made a surprise entrance to St. Peter’s Square during a special Jubilee Mass for the sick and medical ...

In a moving homily read by Archbishop Fisichella, the pontiff described how suffering can become "a place of encounter" with ...

The 88-year-old Pope Francis lifted his hands to wave to the crowd, who stood and applauded, as he was rolled to the front of the altar in St. Peter's Square.

“Orthodox change nothing,” Father Sava adds. “The faith that was delivered to the saints,” Martin agrees. We pause before a ...

AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis Pope Francis has been discharged from the hospital. Following 38 days in the Agostino Gemelli ... you offer for my health from [St. Peter’s] Square.

When World War II broke out in 1939, Gajowniczek, now a sergeant, defended Wieluń — the first Polish city attacked by the ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — A frail Pope Francis returned to the Vatican ... in an important ecumenical anniversary. Only St. John Paul II recorded a longer hospitalization in 1981, when he spent 55 days at ...

After 38 days battling a life-threatening case of pneumonia in both lungs, Pope Francis will be released from the hospital on Sunday, his doctors said. Francis will, however, require at least two ...

Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA “When I was expecting my first child and experiencing difficulty, I asked St. Joseph for his intercession — my daughter was born on his feast day,” Pribaz told ...