LOWELL - With championship Sunday a week away, Pope Francis boys hockey fell just short of reaching TD Garden and the Division I state title game. For more than two periods, the No. 1 Cardinals ...

Clarkstown South senior Isaih Francis came into Saturday's New York state swimming championships as the defending 100-yard backstroke champion. He left Ithaca College as a two-time champion in the ...

Pope Francis on Sunday said defeats are not definitive for those who believe in Jesus Christ and trust in God’s love and forgiveness. In his prepared March 9 homily for the first Sunday of Lent ...

Pope Francis is working from his bed at Rome’s Gemelli University Hospital, where he has been since Feb. 14 amid a scary bout of double pneumonia, but the 88-year-old is not out of the woods yet.

Dakota Leffew scored all of his 14 points in the second half, including 10 in a pivotal run, and Georgia beat Vanderbilt 79-68 on Saturday in a regular-season finale for its fourth straight win.

ROME — Pope Francis is responding well to treatment for double pneumonia and has shown a “gradual, slight improvement” in recent days, the Vatican said Saturday. But his doctors have decided ...

By Elisabetta Povoledo and Jason Horowitz Reporting from Rome and Vatican City The Roman Catholic world has been gripped by uncertainty as Pope Francis, 88, remains in a Rome hospital because of a ...

As Pope Francis remains in a delicate state, prayers for his recovery have been pouring in. Thousands have attended nightly rosary prayers in St. Peter's Square, with many hoping for a miraculous ...

the Holy See’s Secretary of State, and Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra, the “sostituto,” or “substitute,” who acts as a papal chief of staff. They have seen Francis in hospital on at least ...

The Vatican has provided another update on the condition of Pope Francis as he continues treatment for pneumonia. In its latest statement, the Vatican said Pope Francis has shown "gradual ...

On Saturday, the Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, took Francis' place to celebrate Mass for an anti-abortion group. On Sunday, another Vatican official, Cardinal Michael Czerny ...

Ellen Francis is The Washington Post’s Brussels bureau chief, covering the European Union and NATO. She was part of the team that launched The Post’s breaking news hub in London. She was ...