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The pope looms so large in everyday Italian life that there are lots of expressions that make light of even a dark event like his death.

Pope Francis has received get-well notes featuring heartwarming drawings from children in the hospital where he is staying.

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Members of the Swiss Guard are rehearsing the Pontiff’s funeral after the 88-year-old lamented “he won’t make it this time,” ...

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni has visited Pope Francis in the hospital and says he’s “alert and responsive” and full of good humor despite his pneumonia ...

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni has visited Pope Francis in the hospital and says he’s “alert and responsive” and full of good ...

Pope Francis, 88, has reportedly told close aides he fears he "might not make it this time" as he battles double-lung pneumonia at Rome’s Gemelli hospital. Despite Vatican assurances that his ...

The Vatican has given no indication of how long the pope might remain hospitalized, only saying that the treatment of such a “complex clinical picture,” which has already required several changes in ...

At his introductory press conference in April 2019 on the morning when Pope Francis had named him as the new archbishop of ...