Pope Francis’s funeral will be held on Saturday, the Vatican announced Tuesday, as world leaders from US President Donald ...

The cardinals set the funeral for Saturday at 10 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square, to be celebrated by the dean of the College of ...

Here is an explanation of some of the terms and practices related to the time between the death of Pope Francis April 21 and ...

Oscar Crespo was watching TV in his native Buenos Aires when he saw the white smoke appearing above the Sistine Chapel at the ...

In the weeks that follow the passing of a pontiff, the city of Rome, and the Vatican in particular, comes alive with ...

Although he had visited France three times, Pope Francis had never granted an official state visit to Paris. View on euronews ...

A change in popes is a complicated process, with centuries-old rituals involving the transition in leadership for both the ...

An Irish-born American cardinal was entrusted by Pope Francis to be the camerlengo, the Vatican official who runs the Holy ...

Plans are in motion as the Catholic faithful and world leaders begin to gather in Rome for the funeral of Pope Francis.

Pope Francis, the first pope from Latin America, the first from the Jesuit order and the first of his papal name, died on ...

Now, as tradition dictates, the late pontiff's signet ring will be destroyed - or defaced, at least - within the walls of the ...

Navarrosa, who is currently writing his thesis on the pope’s 2016 encyclical 'Amoris Laetitia,' recalls meeting Francis in ...