VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis was hospitalized Friday for the fourth time since being elected in 2013, after he was diagnosed ...

His surgeon, Dr. Sergio Alfieri, revealed that the scarring was not only due to the 2021 abdominal surgery, but to previous surgeries the pope had undergone. Feb. 14, 2025: Francis returned to ...

His surgeon, Dr. Sergio Alfieri, revealed that the scarring was not only due to the 2021 abdominal surgery, but to previous intestinal surgeries the pope had undergone. Feb. 14, 2025: Francis ...

Sometimes bronchitis can lead to pneumonia, a deeper and far more serious infection of the lungs' air sacs. Francis said he ...

The Pope is stable in hospital with a slight fever after he was admitted for bronchitis treatment, the Vatican has said. After daily audiences he was taken to Rome's Gemelli Polyclinic ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis was hospitalized Friday for the fourth time since being elected in 2013, after he was diagnosed with bronchitis last week. Francis had part of one lung removed as a ...