The funeral Mass will likely be celebrated inside St Peter’s, because of the late winter weather, and there is also the ...

Pope Francis’ body was transferred to St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican on Wednesday, April 23, allowing mourners to pay ...

Peruvian nun Alba Socola waited in line for almost five hours with thousands of other Catholics on Wednesday to enter St. Peter's Basilica and give her final farewell to the late Pope Francis.

Thousands of people have begun filing through St. Peter’s Basilica to pay their final respects to Pope Francis at the start ...

Pope Francis had expressed the desire to be buried in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, a fifth-century church in Rome ...

One morning after celebrating the risen Christ on Easter, Catholics around the world as well as in the Diocese of Rochester ...

After Pope Francis’ funeral, 135 cardinals will gather for a conclave to elect a new pope. The traditions include oaths of secrecy, paper ballots and white smoke from a chimney of the Sistine Chapel.

In memory of Pope Francis (1936–2025), this photo essay traces the journey of a pontiff who redefined the papacy with ...

Pope Francis had expressed the desire to be buried in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, a fifth-century church in Rome.

Pope Francis, who rose from modest means in Argentina to become the first Jesuit and Latin American pontiff, died on Monday ...

Pope Francis changed the face of the modern papacy more than any predecessor by shunning much of its pomp and privilege, but ...

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