Image Journalists at the hospital on Monday, a day after the Vatican said the pope was suffering from “initial, mild kidney failure.”Credit...James Hill for The New York Times Sergio Alfieri ...

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Supported by By Jason Horowitz Elisabetta Povoledo and Emma Bubola Photographs by James Hill Reporting from the Vatican Vatican City is an anxious place. Clergy keep their phones by their pillows.

His leadership on Ash Wednesday underscores his significance in the Vatican's hierarchy and his close connection to Francis. The Basilica of Santa Sabina on the Aventine Hill in Rome, where more ...

The Vatican have kept his prognosis as 'guarded ... Instead Italian Cardinal Angelo de Donatis led the procession on Rome's Aventine Hill as he stood in for Francis, who took part in a blessing ...

VATICAN CITY — The Catholic Church opened ... a short penitential procession between two churches on the Aventine Hill, and opened an Ash Wednesday homily prepared for the pontiff with words ...

Pope Francis' doctors on Monday lited a "guarded prognosis" though he will need to remain in the "hospital setting for a ...

the Vatican also announced on Friday. The Ash Wednesday Mass by tradition takes place at the Basilica of St. Sabina on Rome's Aventine Hill. Francis has missed this service on the first day of ...

Feb. 28 (UPI) --The Vatican said Friday that Pope Francis is on a breathing machine after suffering a sudden respiratory episode during his hospitalization. "The Holy Father, this afternoon, after ...

Even Vatican officials had been eager to hear his ... leading a brief penitential procession between two churches on Rome's ...

A cardinal took the pope's place leading a short penitential procession between two churches on the Aventine Hill, and was to read a homily prepared for the pontiff marking Ash Wednesday. In its ...