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
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI Fast Facts
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
Argentina’s faith and politics have come together at the Vatican
February 11, 2024
Nineteen priests kicked out of the country, dozens of incidents of harassment and church desecrations, rural areas lacking worship and social services
February 11, 2024
Despite their rocky start, Argentine President Javier Milei and Pope Francis appear to have hit it off
February 12, 2024
The Vatican on Wednesday unveiled a new open-top popemobile, an all-electric Mercedes-Benz that Pope Francis will use when he greets pilgrims in St.
December 04, 2024
Israel has formally complained after a senior Vatican official spoke of “carnage” in Gaza
February 15, 2024
Five years ago this week, Pope Francis convened an unprecedented summit of bishops from around the world to impress on them that clergy abuse was a global problem and that they needed to do something about it
February 20, 2024
One of the first women who accused a once-exalted Jesuit artist of spiritual, psychological and sexual abuse has gone public
February 21, 2024
Pope Francis was well enough to celebrate his weekly Angelus prayer from the Vatican window overlooking St. Peter’s Square, a day after cancelling his engagements because of a mild flu
February 25, 2024
Ukrainian and allied officials have criticized Pope Francis for saying that Kyiv should have the “courage” to negotiate an end to the war with Russia, a statement many interpreted as a call on Ukraine to surrender
March 10, 2024
The Vatican has unveiled a groundbreaking project for the upcoming Venice Biennale of Art: It is mounting a multimedia installation inside Venice’s Giudecca women’s prison
March 11, 2024
The clergy sexual abuse scandal is slowly gathering steam in Italy
March 11, 2024
Pope Francis says he has no plans to resign and isn’t suffering from any health problems that would require doing so
March 14, 2024
Pope Francis has decided at the last minute to skip his homily during Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter’s Square
March 24, 2024
Pope Francis has washed and kissed the feet of 12 women inmates at a Rome prison
March 28, 2024
The Vatican says Pope Francis is skipping the traditional Good Friday procession at Rome’s Colosseum to protect his health, adding to concerns about his frail condition during a particularly busy liturgical period
March 29, 2024
The Vatican has confirmed Pope Francis will preside over the Easter Vigil service on Saturday night
March 30, 2024
Pope Francis appears to have overcome concerns about his health to preside over Easter Sunday Mass
March 31, 2024
Pope Francis has exposed the political “maneuvers” used to sway votes during the two most recent elections of popes in a book-length interview
April 02, 2024
An international campaign to ban surrogacy has received a strong endorsement from the Vatican
April 05, 2024
The Vatican has declared that sex change operations and surrogacy are grave threats to human dignity
April 08, 2024
Transgender Catholics are voicing disappointment with a new Vatican document rejecting the fundamental concept of changing one’s biological sex
April 08, 2024
The Vatican has issued a new document rejecting the concept of changing one’s biological sex
April 09, 2024
The Holy See has formally protested to France after a French court ruled that a former high-ranking Vatican official was liable for what the court determined to be the wrongful dismissal of a nun from a religious order
April 13, 2024
Italian police arrested last week a "most wanted" U.S. fugitive who was carrying three concealed knives in a crowded St Peter's Square outside the Vatican, a judicial source said on
April 18, 2024A pair of nude feet — dirty, wounded and vulnerable — are painted on the façade of the Venice women’s prison chapel
April 19, 2024
Tech giant Cisco Systems has joined Microsoft and IBM in signing onto a Vatican-sponsored pledge to ensure artificial intelligence is developed and used ethically
April 24, 2024
Pope Francis is traveling to Venice to visit the Holy See’s pavilion for this year’s Venice Biennale
April 28, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's chief of staff thanked a Vatican envoy on Tuesday for his efforts in trying to bring home thousands of children forcibly taken to Russia and asked
May 15, 2024
Pope Francis made his first trip out of Rome for seven months on Sunday with a packed visit to Venice that took in an art exhibition, a prison and a Mass, with the 87-
May 14, 2024
Authorities are expanding their investigation of clergy sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church in New Orleans to include church leaders suspected of shielding predatory priests and failing to report crimes to law enforcement
May 01, 2024
Maximilian Fischer, 20, is one of the new recruits to an institution that has been protecting popes since the 16th century - the Swiss Guard.
May 22, 2024
The Vatican has crossed a key milestone in the runup to its 2025 Jubilee with the promulgation of the official decree establishing the Holy Year
May 09, 2024
Forty-nine employees of the Vatican Museums have filed a class-action complaint with the Vatican administration demanding better seniority, leave and overtime benefits
May 13, 2024
Israel's Embassy to the Holy See issued a protest on Monday after a Yemeni Nobel Prize winner accused Israel of "genocide" in Gaza during an event hosted by the Vatican.
May 28, 2024
Pope Francis said his conservative critics within the Roman Catholic Church in the United States are trapped in a "suicidal attitude," according to an interview with CBS.
May 31, 2024
Pope Francis is planning to visit Turkey next year to mark the anniversary of the First Council of Nicaea, the spiritual head of the world's Orthodox Christians said on Thursday.
May 31, 2024
The Vatican has radically reformed its process for evaluating alleged visions of the Virgin Mary, weeping statues and other seemingly supernatural phenomena
May 17, 2024
The Vatican on Friday tightened procedures for evaluating reported supernatural events such as weeping Madonnas and blood-dripping crucifixes that have for
June 03, 2024
The Vatican has revised how it evaluates purported supernatural events, such as reported visions of the Virgin Mary, to guard against hoaxes and account for news going viral
May 17, 2024
An investigation ordered by Pope Francis has cleared Canadian Cardinal Gerald Lacroix of wrongdoing after he was named in a class-action lawsuit that alleged sexual assault,
June 05, 2024
The Vatican would like to establish a permanent office in China in what would be a major upgrade of diplomatic relations with Beijing, Cardinal Secretary
June 05, 2024
China is willing to work with the Vatican to improve ties, a Chinese foreign ministry official said on Wednesday following remarks from the
June 06, 2024
Pope Francis has not done enough to stamp out clerical sex abuse and its cover-up, activists and abuse survivors said on Thursday, protesting before a Vatican-hosted
June 08, 2024
Pope Francis appeared at Rome's Olympic Stadium on Saturday to provide a symbolic kick-off to a soccer match as part of celebrations for a Vatican-hosted "World Children's Day"
June 11, 2024
Pope Francis used a highly derogatory term towards the LGBT community as he reiterated in a closed-door meeting with Italian bishops that gay people should not be allowed to
June 12, 2024
Pope Francis has apologized after he was quoted using a vulgar term about gay men to reaffirm the Catholic Church’s ban on gay priests
May 28, 2024
Pope Francis, widely quoted as having used a highly derogatory word to describe the LGBT community, did not intend to use homophobic language and apologises
June 13, 2024
Pope Francis’ apology for using a vulgar term to refer to gay men was the latest comment to make headlines about the Catholic Church’s teachings on homosexuality
May 28, 2024
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