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Pope Francis, who has been recovering from a serious bout of double pneumonia, appeared on Easter Sunday to bless the faithful in St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City and even took a surprise ride around the piazza in the popemobile. During his jaunt in the open-air vehicle, he made periodic …

Pope Francis made his first public appearance Sunday since his weeks-long hospital stay, briefly greeting the crowd in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. Sitting in a wheelchair and wearing an oxygen nasal cannula, Pope Francis told worshippers, “Happy Sunday to everyone. Thank you very much,” ABC News reports. Pope …

Pope Francis will be discharged from the hospital Sunday following a five-week stay battling chronic lung disease, the pontiff’s doctors announced Saturday. The pope was first admitted to a Rome hospital on Feb. 14 and diagnosed with double pneumonia, but the situation escalated a week later to the point where …

Amid the Vatican’s statement that Pope Francis remains hospitalized in critical condition with respiratory issues, the pontiff returned to social media Sunday to thank the world for its support. Following Saturday’s news that Pope Francis had an “asthmatic respiratory crisis” that required a blood transfusion, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said …

Pope Francis was hospitalized in Rome last week and has developed pneumonia in both lungs, the Vatican announced in a statement Tuesday, Feb. 18. The Pope was admitted to the hospital on Friday, Feb. 14, after missing several events last week, including a visit with artists at the Vatican. He …

Pope Francis held a comedy summit of sorts at the Vatican on Friday, hosting the likes of Chris Rock, Jimmy Fallon,Stephen Colbert, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and over 100 other comedians and entertainers to celebrate the importance of laughter and humor. “You unite people because laughter is contagious,” Pope Francis told the …

It’s hard to keep track of all the ethical violations depicted in Bad Surgeon: Love Under the Knife, the new three-part Netflix docuseries whose title suggests a straight-to-cable Nineties TV movie. Some of the sins here on display are, literally, mortal: Paolo Macchiarini, an apparent sociopath, a definite conman, and, …

Martin Scorsese’s next project will be about Jesus, the legendary filmmaker hinted following a moving personal meeting with Pope Francis, according to multiple reports. The 80-year-old director had a private audience with the Pope on Saturday, later explaining that the “Holy Father’s appeal ‘to let us see Jesus’ acted in …

Pope Francis condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in a series of tweets Sunday, marking the pontiff’s most pointed statement toward the Russia government’s “barbarism” and “unacceptable armed aggression.” While Pope Francis has often called for peace amid the Ukraine invasion, he had refrained from directly criticizing Russia. However, on Saturday, …