The conclave to select the next pontiff has not started yet, but meetings to set the agenda and to decide on the logistics of mourning for Francis were gathering pace.

Pallbearers, next to Swiss Guards, carry the coffin of the late Pope Francis (C) as it is transported from the chapel of ...

The Vatican says Pope Francis' funeral will be held on Saturday, April 26, in front of St. Peter's Basilica, after the ...

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The body of Pope Francis is lying in state in St. Peter’s Basilica, where it will remain for three days until his funeral ...

Pope Clement XIV is also buried in the Basilica of the Twelve Holy Apostles in Rome.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Thousands of people filed through the central aisle of St. Peter’s Basilica to pay their final respects ...

Rome is in mourning as the world says goodbye to Pope Francis, a transformative leader and spiritual guide to more than a ...

Francis never changed church doctrine on homosexuality or budged on the question of marriage. But he offered a revolutionary ...

He was making a tiny pilgrimage of hope himself, just to come out on that balcony’ on Easter Sunday, the day before he died.

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

In theory Francis shared those concerns, promising a more collegial and horizontally oriented church, more synodal, in the ...