Pope Francis remains in critical condition, according to the Vatican, with blood tests showing mild signs of kidney failure “which is currently under control,” the Vatican said Sunday, as the 88-year-old pontiff battles pneumonia in both his lungs. Dr. Jonathan Reiner weighs in.
February 23, 2025
The Vatican says Pope Francis remains in critical condition but has shown slight improvement in laboratory tests
February 24, 2025
Pope Francis is still critically ill as he battles double pneumonia, but his condition has shown a "slight improvement", the Vatican said on Monday.
February 24, 2025
Pope Francis, battling double pneumonia, remains in a critical condition and his prognosis is still guarded because of the "complexity" of his clinical condition, the Vatican
February 23, 2025
The Vatican has detailed laws and rituals to ensure the transfer of power when a pope dies or resigns, but not when he is sick
February 23, 2025
The Vatican says Pope Francis remains in critical condition and blood tests show early kidney failure but he remains alert and “well-oriented.”
February 23, 2025
Pope Francis, battling double pneumonia, remains in a critical condition for a second day running and has shown an "initial, slight insufficiency" in his
February 23, 2025
Pope given high flows of oxygen but has peaceful night in hospital, Vatican says
February 21, 2025
The Vatican says Pope Francis is in critical condition after he suffered a long asthmatic respiratory crisis that required high flows of oxygen
February 22, 2025
Pope Francis has pneumonia in both of his lungs following a CT scan in the hospital where he’s been receiving care for several days now, the Vatican said. CNN was outside the hospital in Rome when several supporters visited with candles and prayers for the Pope's health.
February 19, 2025
Pope Francis "is more unwell than yesterday", the Vatican said in a statement on Saturday, adding that he had suffered a "prolonged asthma-like respiratory crisis" earlier in
February 22, 2025
Pope Francis, who is being treated in hospital for double pneumonia, is not yet out of danger but is expected to live, one of his doctors said on Friday.
February 21, 2025
Pope Francis, who is being treated in hospital for double pneumonia, is not yet out of danger but is expected to live, one of his doctors said on Friday.
February 21, 2025
Pope Francis’ medical team says the pontiff's condition isn’t life-threatening
February 21, 2025
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
February 20, 2025
Pope Francis, in hospital for double pneumonia, is improving slightly, has no fever, and his blood analyses are stable, the Vatican said on Thursday.
February 20, 2025
The Vatican says that Pope Francis’ clinical condition is “improving slightly,” adding that he went about his work activities from the hospital where he is recovering from pneumonia
February 20, 2025
Pope Francis’ condition ‘slightly improving’ after pneumonia diagnosis, Vatican says
February 17, 2025
Pope Francis has shown a "slight improvement", is alert and got out of bed to eat breakfast on Thursday, the Vatican said, as the pontiff spent his seventh
February 20, 2025
While Pope Francis battles pneumonia in hospital, work at the Vatican, headquarters of the 1.4 billion-member Catholic Church, continues apace.
February 20, 2025
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni has visited Pope Francis in the hospital and says he’s “alert and responsive” and full of good humor despite his pneumonia
February 19, 2025
Pope Francis, battling double pneumonia in hospital, is in a stable condition and has shown "slight improvement" in results from recent blood tests, the
February 19, 2025
Vatican officials said that Pope Francis had developed pneumonia in both lungs, further complicating the pontiff’s recovery
February 19, 2025
Pope Francis, the 88-year-old head of the 1.4-billion-member Roman Catholic Church, is in hospital being treated for double pneumonia following a respiratory infection.
February 19, 2025
The Vatican says Pope Francis has developed pneumonia in both his lungs, after new tests showed a further complication in the condition of the 88-year-old pope
February 18, 2025
Pope Francis has the onset of double pneumonia, the Vatican said on Tuesday, complicating treatment for the 88-year pontiff and indicating a further
February 18, 2025
The Vatican says Pope Francis’ respiratory tract infection is presenting a “complex clinical picture” that will require further hospitalization
February 17, 2025
Vatican authorities said Monday that Pope Francis has a complex infection in his respiratory system and will require more targeted drug treatment
February 17, 2025
The Vatican says Pope Francis is stable and that he followed Mass on television after a second night sleeping well at the hospital
February 16, 2025
Pope Francis, 88, spent a third day in a Roman hospital on Sunday, with the Vatican saying that he was in a stable condition and that his treatment was ongoing after
February 16, 2025
Pope Francis in ‘stable’ condition, thanks doctors and healthcare workers after ‘quiet’ second night in hospital
February 16, 2025
Pope will not lead Sunday’s Angelus prayer, unclear how long he will stay in hospital
February 15, 2025
Pope Francis, who is receiving treatment in hospital for a respiratory tract infection, will not appear in public on Sunday to lead his usual weekly prayer with
February 15, 2025
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December 07, 2012Pope Francis, who was taken to hospital on Friday for treatment of bronchitis, is suffering from a respiratory infection but is in a stable condition, the
February 14, 2025
Pope Francis, hospitalized for bronchitis, is in ‘fair’ condition, says Vatican
February 14, 2025
Preliminary tests show Pope Francis has a respiratory tract infection
February 14, 2025
Pope Francis was hospitalized Friday for the fourth time since he was elected in 2013
February 14, 2025
The Vatican's lead diplomat on Thursday criticised President Donald Trump's plan for the U.S. to displace Palestinians from Gaza and "take over" the
February 14, 2025
Pope Francis said on Wednesday he was still suffering from a bout of bronchitis and asked an aide to read prepared remarks for a weekly general audience at
February 12, 2025
Nicaragua's government described the Vatican as "depraved" and "pedophile" on Sunday, two days after an interview on Catholic television channel EWTN with exiled Nicaraguan Bishop Rolando
February 10, 2025
Man ransacks altar at St. Peter’s Basilica, knocking over candelabra worth thousands of dollars
February 08, 2025King Charles and Queen Camilla to visit Pope Francis
February 06, 2025
Pope Francis is suffering from bronchitis but plans to maintain his scheduled appointments in the coming days, the Vatican said on Thursday.
February 06, 2025
The Vatican Apostolic Library has tapped Dior's creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri, Italian singer Jovanotti and Icelandic illustrator Kristjana S Williams for an exhibition exploring world tours of the late 19th century
January 31, 2025
A Vatican document released Tuesday offers wide-ranging ethical guidelines for the application of artificial intelligence in sectors from warfare to health care The underlying call was that the burgeoning technology must be used to complement, and not replace, human intelligence
January 28, 2025
A retired archbishop who for decades was Peru's leading Catholic cleric has been disciplined following allegations of sexual abuse, the Vatican has said,
January 27, 2025
The Vatican has confirmed that disciplinary sanctions are still in effect against the first-ever cardinal from Opus Dei following accusations of sexual abuse
January 26, 2025Pope Francis is not expected to veto President Donald Trump's choice of a high-profile critic of his papacy as the next U.S. ambassador to the Holy See,
January 22, 2025
Karen Vasquez, 44, walked out of jail in Cuba on Sunday, part of a deal brokered by the Vatican under which the Biden administration would loosen
January 22, 2025
Pope Francis has fallen and hurt his right arm
January 16, 2025
Pope Francis injures arm after falling at the Vatican
January 16, 2025
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said on Tuesday his government would "gradually" release 553 prisoners following talks with the Vatican, a decision announced just hours after the
January 14, 2025
Pope Francis tells in memoir how documents on abuse and corruption cases were handed to him
January 14, 2025
Pope Francis has named the first woman to head a major Vatican office
January 06, 2025
Pope Francis on Monday named the first woman to lead a major Vatican department, appointing an Italian sister to take charge of the office that oversees the
January 06, 2025
Pope Francis has warned that bullying in schools prepares students for war rather than peace
January 04, 2025
Pope Francis ushered in the New Year with an appeal for the faithful to reject abortion, calling for a “firm commitment” to protect and respect life from conception to natural death
January 01, 2025
Rome has completed the most ambitious of thousands of construction works that have disrupted daily life in the Eternal City in preparation for the millions of
December 23, 2024
Pope Francis is suffering from a cold and will deliver his Sunday blessing from indoors
December 21, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump says he’s nominating the president of the advocacy group CatholicVote to be the U.S. ambassador to the Vatican
December 20, 2024
President Joe Biden will travel to Italy next month to meet with Pope Francis and top Italian officials for what is expected to be the final international trip of his presidency
December 19, 2024
One of the Vatican's Nativity scenes raised eyebrows when it was unveiled because it featured a keffiyeh, the Palestinian headscarf
December 11, 2024
Renovations have left Rome in chaos. Now 35 million visitors are about to descend
December 11, 2024
A former director of the Vatican's Sistine Chapel Choir was convicted of embezzlement on Tuesday, sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to pay back
December 10, 2024Pope Francis will meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday, the Vatican said, as the Catholic pontiff has become more vocal in his criticism of
December 10, 2024
Pope Francis led a ceremony in St.
December 07, 2024
Pope Francis has installed 21 new cardinals, many of whom are key figures in his reform agenda
December 07, 2024
The Vatican has included an event organised by LGBT Catholics on its official online calendar for the upcoming 2025 Roman Catholic Holy Year, in an unusual
December 06, 2024
Newly discovered correspondence in the Vatican archives suggests that Pope Pius XII had detailed information from a trusted German Jesuit that up to 6,000 Jews and Poles were being gassed each day in German-occupied Poland
September 16, 2023
Women who say they were abused by a once-prominent Jesuit artist say they are now being revictimized by his superiors
September 19, 2023
Early next month, the Vatican will open an unprecedented gathering of Catholic clergy and laypeople from around the world
September 24, 2023
Pope Francis has presided over a ceremony to create 21 new cardinals
September 30, 2023
Pope Francis will open this week a global gathering of Catholic bishops and laypeople to discuss the future of the church
October 02, 2023
Pope Francis has suggested there might be ways to bless same-sex unions
October 02, 2023
Conservative Catholics have launched a barrage of challenges before a big Vatican meeting, with five cardinals demanding clarifications on same-sex couples
April 26, 2024
Clergy sexual abuse survivors have unveiled a proposed new church law calling for the permanent removal of abusive priests and superiors who covered for them
October 02, 2023
Pope Francis has opened a big meeting on the future of the Catholic Church
October 04, 2023
Pope Francis’ big meeting on the future of the Catholic Church is heading into its final stretch
October 25, 2023
Pope Francis will have nearly an entire day of bilateral meetings with world leaders attending the COP28 climate conference in Dubai next month, according
April 26, 2024
The head of the Catholic church in China has begun a trip to Hong Kong at the invitation of the city’s pope-appointed Roman Catholic cardinal, marking the first official visit by a Beijing bishop in history
November 14, 2023
Lawyers for a once-powerful cardinal have accused Vatican prosecutors of being “prisoners to their completely shattered theory" in closing arguments of a trial that has raised fundamental questions about the rule of law in the city state
November 22, 2023
The Vatican says Pope Francis went to the hospital for tests after he came down with the flu
November 25, 2023
The Vatican says Pope Francis is receiving antibiotics intravenously to treat a lung inflammation but that he doesn't have pneumonia
November 27, 2023
Pope Francis has decided to take measures to punish Cardinal Raymond Burke, who is one of his highest-ranking critics
November 28, 2023
Pope Francis has canceled his trip to Dubai for the U.N. climate conference on doctors’ orders
November 28, 2023
Pope Francis has made his first public appearance outdoors since being stricken by bronchitis two weeks ago, which forced him to cancel a planned trip to the COP-28 climate conference in Dubai
December 08, 2023
A Vatican tribunal has convicted a cardinal of embezzlement and sentenced him to 5 ½ years in prison in one of several verdicts handed down in a complicated financial trial that aired the city state’s dirty laundry and tested its justice system
December 16, 2023
Pope Francis is marking a birthday
December 17, 2023
The Vatican’s chief prosecutor has appealed a court verdict that largely dismantled his theory of a grand conspiracy to defraud the Holy See of millions of euros
December 22, 2023
The Vatican next year will publish a collection of never-before-seen homilies delivered by the late Pope Benedict XVI
December 23, 2023
The Vatican has concluded a lengthy investigation into allegations of misconduct by Archbishop John Nienstedt, the former leader of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis
January 05, 2024
In the greatest rebuke yet to Pope Francis, the Catholic bishops of Africa and Madagascar have issued a unified statement refusing to follow his declaration allowing priests to offer blessings to same-sex couples
January 11, 2024
The Vatican says Nicaraguan Bishop Rolando Álvarez and 18 Catholic clergy members from the Latin American country have arrived in Rome and are guests of the Holy See
January 14, 2024
Pope Francis says if he can, he'll keep a promise to visit his native Argentina in the second half of this year
January 14, 2024
As artificial intelligence's impact on society receives more scrutiny, a Franciscan friar who preaches a message of ethics in technology has gained some powerful listeners
January 18, 2024
Pope Francis met a delegation from Vietnam's Communist Party on Thursday and the Vatican's foreign minister said the pontiff was keen to visit the Southeast
April 26, 2024
A peace group with close ties to the Vatican said on Tuesday it will appeal to European businesses and tourists to boycott the U.S. state of Alabama if it went
January 23, 2024
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