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Pope Francis was admitted to Rome’s Gemelli Hospital on Friday, Feb. 14, to undergo testing and treatment for bronchitis, the ...

Pontiff may step down if pneumonia stops him from having ‘direct contact’ with world’s Catholics, says former Vatican ...

The 88-year-old pontiff, Pope Francis, is undergoing treatment at Rome's Gemelli hospital, where he was admitted on February ...

While Pope Francis battles pneumonia in hospital, work at the Vatican, headquarters of the 1.4 billion-member Catholic Church ...

The Catholic Church is almost 2,000 years old, and over the centuries, the protocol for papal funerals has been codified and ...

Pope Francis, who is in hospital with pneumonia in both lungs, had a "restful night" and got out of bed to eat breakfast in ...

He is the 266th pontiff of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City since 2013. Pope Francis is reported ...