Before leaving the hospital, the Pope gave a thumbs-up to the crowd after he was wheeled out onto the balcony.

The 88-year-old pontiff had been battling severe pneumonia.

Pope Francis has returned home to the Vatican after he was hospitalized for five weeks with a life-threatening bout of ...

Surgeon Sergio Alfieri details critical moments in 38-day hospitalization that left the Vatican leader clinging to life ...

"There was a real risk he might not make it," admitted Professor Sergio Alfieri from the Gemelli Polyclinic. In an interview ...

Pope Francis was released from Rome’s Gemelli Hospital, where he has been battling double pneumonia for the past five weeks, ...

After 38 days in the hospital, some of those spent in critical condition, Pope Francis is returning to the Vatican.

The Vatican will release the text prepared by the Pontiff, as it has done during the nearly six weeks he was hospitalized.

Before leaving the hospital on Sunday, the 88-year-old pope smiled and waved at well-wishers gathered outside.

After leaving the Gemelli Hospital in Rome, the Pope's health is being monitored by 61-year-old Luigi Carbone, the "personal ...

The 88-year-old made his first public appearance in five weeks at the hospital on Sunday after surviving a life-threatening ...