The pope's doctor says Francis has shown ‘’a truly surprising improvement’’ since returning to the Vatican to convalesce ...

The head of Pope Francis' medical team says there was a crisis during the pontiff's battle with pneumonia so dire, they ...

After 38 days in the hospital, Pope Francis returned to the Vatican, but his medical team have said he will need two months ...

Dr. Sergio Alfieri said the 88-year-old pontiff and people close to him alike understood “that he might not survive the night ...

Doctors taking care of Pope Francis weighed ending their treatment at one point as there “was a risk that he would not make ...

After spending more than a month in the hospital, Pope Francis has overcome a life-threatening case of double pneumonia, ...

Pope Francis will be released from the hospital on Sunday, his doctors have said, after 38 days battling a life-threatening ...

In an interview, the leader of Pope Francis’s medical team called it “a miracle” that the 88-year-old pontiff left the ...

The medical staff looking over Pope Francis during his hospitalization for double pneumonia considered ending his treatment.

The pontiff spent over five weeks being treated for bronchitis that evolved into a severe respiratory illness. When he ...

Dr. Sergio Alfieri, medical director of Rome's Gemelli hospital, said Francis will require at least two months of rest and ...

“I find him very lively,’’ Dr. Sergio Alfieri said, after visiting the pope at his apartment in the Santa Marta Domus on Wednesday, three days after his release from Rome’s Gemelli hospital.