The bells of St. Peter’s Basilica tolled to mark the end of the funeral Mass in Vatican City, where mourners joined in a ...

Pope Francis, who passed away on Easter Monday at 88, was honored with a funeral at St. Peter's Square. A key tradition ...

His funeral is being held on Saturday in St. Peter’s Square. Francis will then be buried, according to his will: in a simple ...

The cardinal added: “He had great spontaneity and an informal way of addressing everyone, even those far from the Church.

The open-air mass was attended by an estimated 200,000 people including 54 heads of state and 12 reigning sovereigns.

The day before he died, in his final public address, Pope Francis expressed an Easter Sunday message of unity and an appeal for the marginalized and migrants. “All of us,” he proclaimed, “are children ...

The dean of the College of Cardinals, Giovanni Re, offered the homily during Pope Francis' funeral. Here are the words he ...

They came from around the world to rejoice in the naming of the first millennial saint, but they ended up bidding farewell to ...

Pope Francis’s calls for peace have been repeated at his funeral, as world leaders including the US and Ukraine presidents ...

Pope Francis, the pontiff whose acts of love and humility rippled through his papacy, was laid to rest in a service he deliberately simplified.

In Rome, some 250,000 mourners paid their respects to Pope Francis over a three-day lying-in-state, which ran overnight from ...