Pope Francis visited Rome's central prison Thursday and met with dozens of inmates as he kept an Easter season appointment to ...

Pope Francis met for nearly a half-hour with some 70 inmates at the Regina Coeli prison in Rome’s Trastevere neighborhood.

Pope Francis has long advocated for immigrants, refugees, and the vulnerable—but the Church, like other institutions, may ...

Although the pontiff has begun meeting with more people, he remains frail and will not lead important Easter events, the ...

The pope was initially admitted on Feb. 14 for bronchitis Pope Francis has been discharged from the hospital. Following 38 days in the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic Hospital in Rome, the pope, 88, made ...

Pope Francis made his first public appearance at the Vatican since he was discharged from the hospital on March 23 after a ...

Pope Francis will leave the hospital on Sunday and make his first public appearance after being admitted for treatment in mid-February for a number of respiratory issues, according to the Vatican ...

The pope's medical team had to decide whether to "stop and let him go or force it and try all the drugs and therapies possible." ...

The pope, in a previously unannounced move, came out to the square shortly before noon at the end of the celebration of a ...