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ROME (AP) — A weak and breathless Pope Francis thanked people for their prayers for his recovery in a remarkable audio ...

The recorded message was the first released by the Vatican since Pope Francis was hospitalized with a respiratory illness on ...

Pope Francis on Thursday made his first public comments since being hospitalized on Feb. 14, thanking the public for their ...

Pope Francis "had a tranquil night and woke shortly after 8 a.m.," the Vatican said, coming a day after he made his first ...

Francis’ feeble voice, discernible through his labored breaths and in his native Spanish, was recorded Thursday and broadcast ...

The prayer evoked the 2005 vigils when St. John Paul II was dying ... of state said that ever since Francis had been hospitalized, a chorus of prayers for his recovery had swelled up from around ...

Pope Francis' recovery from double pneumonia is continuing on a positive trajectory, with the pontiff remaining stable for ...

Eleven days after the pope was hospitalized, speculation is mounting and prayers for his recovery verge on a vigil. Several thousand took part in a rosary prayer for Pope Francis in St. Peter’s ...

As they prepared to walk through the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica ... local Catholics are offering Masses and special prayers for Pope Francis’ health. The chaplain of Gemelli Hospital ...

A weak and breathless Pope Francis thanked people for their prayers for his recovery in a ... was recorded Thursday and broadcast to the faithful in St. Peter's Square who had gathered for the ...