King Charles and Queen Camilla are scheduled to visit Italy in April, Buckingham Palace recently announced. However, the couple's trip is reportedly "in doubt" due to an official's concerning health issues.

Italy's Movement for Life, "in harmony with the whole church," places at the center of its concern "the dignity of the person, and it privileges those who are weakest," the pope said in a message signed March 5 "from the Gemelli Polyclinic," where he has been hospitalized since Feb. 14.

Woman lays flowers for sick Pope outside hospital in Italy. Maria Neve came to lay fowers for the Pope, and said: He shows great respect for women, so we must show him respect as well'.

As Pope Francis entered his third week in a hospital battling pneumonia, hundreds of pilgrims continued to make their way to this hilltop town to pray at the tomb of St. Francis, the hometown medieval saint whom the pontiff chose as his papal name.

Just before breaking the Ramadan fast on Sunday evening, Hasan Zaheda played basketball with his son in the tiny courtyard of the basement-level apartment on Rome’s outskirts where the refugee family is rebuilding their lives.

The expatriate community is small but shares a special bond with Francis, who has been in the hospital since Feb. 14.