Christopher White

Francis' condition continues to be critical and the pope is not out of danger.

Pope Francis' doctors believe the 88-year-old pontiff is not in danger of death at the moment, but that the therapy for his double pneumonia needs time to work and will require at least another week of hospitalization. 

Pope Francis continues to improve and the 88-year-old pontiff remains without fever and with a well-functioning heart, as he carries on his hospital recovery from double pneumonia. 

Pope Francis is in stable condition and his blood tests indicate a slight improvement, as the 88-year-old pontiff continues to battle pneumonia in hospital. 

Pope Francis has been diagnosed with pneumonia in both lungs and his latest laboratory tests and chest X-rays continue to reveal a "complex" medical picture, according to a Feb. 18 Vatican statement. 

 Pope Francis' treatment for a respiratory tract infection "will require adequate hospitalization" to address what the Vatican is now describing as a "complex clinical picture." 

Pope Francis is continuing his treatment for a respiratory infection at Rome's Gemelli Hospital but his condition is improving, according to a Feb. 15 update from the Vatican press office.

Pope Francis on Feb. 14 was admitted to Rome's Gemelli Hospital for testing and treatment of his ongoing bronchitis, which has plagued the 88-year-old pontiff in recent weeks.

The pope has closely followed the response of U.S. prelates to the president's attacks on migrants and he expects them to offer a united front in opposing mass deportation.

Pope Francis has written a sweeping letter to the U.S. bishops decrying the "major crisis" triggered by President Donald Trump's mass deportation plans and explicitly rejecting Vice President JD Vance's attempts to use Catholic theology to justify the administration's immigration crackdown.

Pope Francis on Feb. 11 tapped Arizona's Bishop Edward Weisenburger as the new archbishop of Detroit, Michigan, appointing a staunch defender of migrants and an environmental advocate to lead one of the historic centers of American Catholicism. 

The head of the Catholic Church's global charity arm has blasted the Trump administration's decision to gut foreign aid as "reckless" and lamented that it will likely "kill millions of people and condemn hundreds of millions more to lives of dehumanizing poverty."

For Syria's post-regime change future to be successful, the head of the Catholic Church's leading humanitarian and social service confederation has one clear message: End the sanctions now.

In many respects, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn and Cardinal Timothy Dolan have traveled similar paths to the most powerful office in the church, except for pope.  

A new Vatican document sounds the alarm against allowing artificial intelligence to be controlled by only a few powerful corporations and pleads for a "moral evaluation" of how and when such technologies are utilized. 

Pope Francis on Jan. 19 denounced President Donald Trump's provisional plans to carry out a massive deportation of migrants as a "disgrace."

View from the Vatican: Hope is less autobiography than it is an aggregation of existing stories, interviews, speeches and history that are already known about the now-88-year-old pontiff. 

Pope Francis suffered a fall and injured his right arm, the Vatican announced on Jan. 16. 

President Joe Biden has awarded Pope Francis the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States’ highest civilian honor.

Consolata Missionary Sr. Simona Brambilla will serve as prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, the Vatican office that works with religious orders and their members.