Dr. Sergio Alfieri coordinated Francis’ five-week hospital treatment for double pneumonia and continued to oversee the pope’s ...

After the pope suffered a massive stroke Monday morning, his medical team saw no point to sending him to a hospital. He died soon after.

Cardinals could pick a progressive pope ready to build off the changes Francis brought to the church or a conservative who ...

Pope Francis passed away peacefully at his Vatican home, Casa Santa Marta, fulfilling his wish to die at home. Dr. Sergio ...

In the quiet hours before dawn at the Vatican, Pope Francis offered one last act of love and gratitude. As he lay dying in ...

Dr Alfieri was alerted at 5.30am on Monday by Francis’s health care assistant, Massimiliano Strappetti, that Francis had been ...

Pope Francis’s doctor found the pontiff with his eyes open and breathing normally, but unresponsive when he was called to the ...

In an interview with Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, Dr. Sergio Alfieri described being called to the Vatican early on Monday.