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in front of large monitors that show the incoming call’s country of origin. Gendarmes, the Vatican’s police, take the night shift. About a dozen sisters hailing from Italy, the Philippines ...

VATICAN CITY − The Vatican on Sunday released the first image of Pope Francis in the hospital since he began treatment for double pneumonia, in which the 88-year-old pontiff appeared to be ...

The nuns who operate the Vatican’s switchboard are fielding a growing number of calls while the pope is in the hospital.

Though his condition had improved, he will remain in the hospital for further treatment, the Vatican said in a statement.

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis is registering new slight improvements in his monthlong treatment for pneumonia in both his lungs, ...