Astronaut John W. Young caused beef between NASA and congress by smuggling an illicit sandwich onto a space mission.

As Texas grapples with a measles outbreak that has infected more than 250 people, Baylor College's Peter Hotez said west ...

Pilgrims arriving in Rome for the Catholic Church’s Jubilee Year have added a stop at the Gemelli Hospital where Francis is being treated to pray for his recovery. Cameras have been trained on a suite ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis woke up Tuesday to good news from his doctors: They upgraded his prognosis and say he is no longer ...

Rome — The voice of Pope Francis was heard by the public on Thursday night for the first time since he was admitted to a hospital three weeks earlier. The message was recorded from the 88-year ...

While the actual Holy Father is hospitalized in critical condition, it would have been awkward to celebrate a movie that opens with the death of a fictional pope. In any event, a film about ...

The pope was wounded by gunshots in his abdomen and hand.June 20-Aug. 14, 1981 — 55 daysIn his longest hospitalization, John Paul underwent a minor surgical operation and was then treated for a ...

ASSISI, Italy (AP) — As Pope Francis entered his third week in a hospital battling ... are still seen as an example of the kind of interfaith dialogue that St. John Paul II promoted by gathering ...

The Vatican has been through periods like this before. Between May and August 1981, Pope John Paul II spent 77 days at the Gemelli after an assassination attempt. The Swiss Guard, an armed force ...

Pope Francis addressed what he called a “planetary crisis” that is adversely affecting the world in multiple ways in a message Monday to the general assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life ...

Rome — Pope Francis has shown further slight improvement as he battles double pneumonia, but doctors say his prognosis is still "guarded," the Vatican said Wednesday. A CT chest scan taken ...