Last Sunday the Vatican released the first photograph of Pope Francis since his ordeal began. He was wearing a stole around ...

A weak and frail Pope Francis has returned home to the Vatican from the hospital after surviving a five-week, ...

After five weeks in hospital with pneumonia, the Pope has left hospital to prepare for two months of rest at the Vatican.

Recent updates have indicated that Francis has seen his condition improve despite complications, with the pope saying he no ...

Discussions of succession scenarios have been accelerated by the pontiff’s bout with double pneumonia and warnings that he ...

Cardinal Fernando Vérgez Alzaga, LC, president of the Governorate of Vatican City State and president of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State, celebrated his 80th birthday on Saturday ...

The Vatican says Pope Francis is responding well to therapy for double pneumonia and has shown a “gradual, slight improvement ...

The two highest-ranking secretariat officials are Cardinal Pietro Parolin ... departments – known as dicasteries – located in offices in and around Vatican City State and Rome. The departments, such ...

The Vatican houses the central government of the Catholic Church and is also an independent city-state ... named by the pope to the office of "cardinal" can, if under 80 years old, vote to ...

In an extraordinary move, Vatican judges have told the Church’s former auditor-general, Libero Milone, who worked closely ...