St. Francis is the medieval Catholic saint whose spirituality focused on loving the poor, creation, and peace ASSISI, Italy -- As Pope Francis entered his third week in a hospital battling pneumonia, ...

Hundreds gathered for Sunday mass at New York City’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral to pray for Pope Francis, who remains in critical condition after he was diagnosed with double pneumonia.

The prayer evoked the 2005 vigils when St. John Paul II was dying in the Apostolic Palace, but those on hand said they were praying for Francis' recovery. Standing on the same stage where Francis ...

The update comes after the Vatican announced earlier in the day that daily evening prayers for the health of Pope Francis will be held at St. Peter’s Square. The Vatican No. 2, Cardinal Pietro ...

Pope Francis has entered the fifth week of hospital treatment for double pneumonia very much looking ahead as he continued ...

He had sent Francis a video, and the pope called to thank him, the Vatican said. Earlier Monday, the Vatican had announced the start of nighttime prayers for the pope's health in St. Peter's ...

He was also the first pope to choose Francis as his name, thus honoring St. Francis of Assisi, a 13th-century mystic whose love for nature and the poor have inspired Catholics and non-Catholics alike.

Pope Francis remained in critical condition Sunday and blood tests show early kidney failure but he remains alert and “well-oriented,” and attended Mass, the Vatican said, as the 88-year-old ...

Several thousand took part in a rosary prayer for Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Monday evening.Credit... Supported by By Jason Horowitz Elisabetta Povoledo and Emma Bubola ...

the Vatican announced that there will be a rosary for Francis' health Monday night in St. Peter's Square. "The Cardinals residing in Rome, along with all collaborators of the Roman Curia and the ...

Before leading Tuesday evening’s recitation of rosary, held inside the Vatican’s Paul VI Audience Hall, Koch drew parallels in the lives of Pope Francis and St. Peter.

“As our Holy Father Pope Francis is in very, very fragile health, and probably close to death,” Dolan said in his homily from the pulpit of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, though he later told ...