The 88-year-old pontiff had been battling severe pneumonia.

The medical staff looking after Pope Francis considered stopping his treatment so he could die, according to the lead doctor, ...

The 88-year-old pope gave a thumbs up and acknowledged the crowd after he was wheeled out onto the balcony overlooking the ...

Pope Francis has returned home to the Vatican after he was hospitalized for five weeks with a life-threatening bout of ...

Surgeon Sergio Alfieri details critical moments in 38-day hospitalization that left the Vatican leader clinging to life ...

Pope Francis was released from Rome’s Gemelli Hospital, where he has been battling double pneumonia for the past five weeks, ...

During his 38-day hospital stay for pneumonia, Pope Francis came so near to death that his physicians thought about stopping ...

After 38 days in the hospital, some of those spent in critical condition, Pope Francis is returning to the Vatican.

"There was a real risk he might not make it," admitted Professor Sergio Alfieri from the Gemelli Polyclinic. In an interview ...

Before leaving the hospital on Sunday, the 88-year-old pope smiled and waved at well-wishers gathered outside.

The Vatican will release the text prepared by the Pontiff, as it has done during the nearly six weeks he was hospitalized.

The 88-year-old made his first public appearance in five weeks at the hospital on Sunday after surviving a life-threatening ...