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Doctors on Friday said the 88-year-old Francis is "not out of danger" ​and that the main threat facing him would be the onset ...

The Vatican is carrying on with its Holy Year celebrations without the pope. Pope Francis remains hospitalized with pneumonia ...

Pope Francis slept well and ate breakfast Wednesday, the Vatican said, after he developed pneumonia in both lungs in a ...

Pope Francis will remain in hospitalized following his pneumonia diagnosis and will not deliver the weekly Angelus prayer – ...

Pope Francis' complex respiratory infection isn't life-threatening but he's not out of danger, his medical team said Friday, ...