Prince William will represent the British royal family at the funeral of Pope Francis in Vatican City on Saturday, April 26.

After Pope Francis’s death at the age of 88, the process of electing the next pontiff will begin. Cardinal electors, the vast ...

The White House and Vatican have had a relationship stretching back to at least 1919, and includes Pope John Paul II and ...

Tributes to Pope Francis pour in from around the world with Vatican set to published details of funeral and conclave ...

Travellers to Rome should expect closures, visitor restrictions and crowds at some of the city’s main attractions. View on ...

Pope Francis’ funeral will be a more modest event, after the pontiff broke with longstanding Vatican tradition to simplify ...

In his landmark 2015 encyclical “Praised Be,” Pope Francis cast care for the planet as an urgent and existential moral ...

There are time-honoured rituals, some shrouded in secrecy, and a series of carefully planned events that are likely to take ...

One of the most long-lasting impacts of Pope Francis' pontificate may be his appointment of more women than ever before to ...

Pope Francis will be laid to rest outside the Vatican in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore (St. Mary Major) on Saturday.

After the Vatican announced the pontiff’s death, the news reverberated across the Chicago area, Naperville included.

After the ballots are pierced, they are burned in a cylindrical stove at the end of the voting session. Black smoke from the ...