Francis celebrated the 12th anniversary of his election as pope from hospital Thursday. Doctors not involved in the pope's care have said he is likely to face a long, fraught road to ...

Legit.ng earlier reported that the Catholic Church celebrated the 12th anniversary of the election of Pope Francis differently on Thursday, March 13, 2025. The leader of the Catholic church marked ...

will summon the cardinals to Rome for what is known as a conclave to elect Francis’ successor. The period between the death of a pope and the election of a new one is called the sede vacante ...

Francis is well aware that anytime he gets sick, plotting intensifies for the election of the next pope, contributing to a certain lame duck status as he ages. “Some wanted me dead,” he said ...

Pope Francis spent the 12th anniversary of his election to the papacy undergoing physiotherapy at Rome's Gemelli hospital, but he was well enough to celebrate it in little ways. Along with the health ...

The 88-year-old pontiff has been battling pneumonia at the hospital in Rome, in what is his longest stay since his election as pope 12 years ago. Earlier on Sunday, Francis thanked well-wishers ...

The cathedral’s ceremony to receive the medal took place on March 13, the 12th anniversary of Pope Francis’ election, during a Mass of thanksgiving for his pontificate. Upon receiving it ...

2013 as the 266th pope — and the Catholic Church’s first Latin American pope. The Holy See hasn’t said how the anniversary of Francis’ election might be commemorated. It is a public holiday at the ...

He recalled that yesterday was the 12th anniversary of Francis’ election as pope. The Italian cardinal, whom Francis chose as his secretary of state in August 2013, then reflected on the essence ...

And no one gave up.” Francis left the hospital on March 23 after 38 days in hospital, the longest of his four stays since his election as pope 12 years ago. The pontiff had a number of breathing ...

And yet Francis’ critics often complain that he’s authoritarian, that he takes decisions in a vacuum and without regard to the law, and wields power like a “Dictator Pope,” the title of a book written ...