The Vatican late Wednesday said that the pontiff will be hospitalized for “a few days” to treat a respiratory infection.

Pope Francis went to a Rome hospital on Wednesday and canceled his audiences for the next two days to undergo previously scheduled tests, the Vatican said.

A founding member of Pope Francis’s child protection advisory board resigned Wednesday, citing a host of problems inside the commission and in its relationship with the Vatican bureaucracy.

Claims that NGOs which rescue migrants at sea do for money, and in effect are human traffickers, is a rhetorical staple on Italy’s political right.

Of the past five priest secretaries to former popes, only Gänswein remained in Rome with a Vatican position after the pope he served was no longer in power – and that was primarily to be at Benedict...