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

No one knows who the world's Catholic cardinals will choose to succeed Pope Francis as the new leader of the global Catholic ...

Pope Francis’s coffin will be transferred to St. Peter’s Basilica Wednesday for three days of lying in state, with scores of ...

Pope Francis' funeral will take place on Saturday, with a slew of world leaders including US President Donald Trump and ...

A long line of pilgrims and tourists stretched across the sprawling St Peter's Square before the doors opened at 11:00 am ...

The selection of the next pope is a secretive and lengthy process, with 135 cardinals under the age of 80 preparing to enter a conclave in Rome after the recent passing of Pope Francis at age 88. The ...

Pope Francis's body was transported to Saint Peter's Basilica on Wednesday where he will lie in state before his funeral on ...

The rite began in the chapel of the Casa Santa Marta, where Francis lived for the 12 years of his pontificate, and where he ...

The Vatican has confirmed Pope Francis’s funeral will take place at 10am local time (9am Irish time) on Saturday, in St Peter’s Square. The funeral will be presided over by Cardinal Giovanni Battista ...

SEOUL: In the coming days, cardinals under the age of 80 will assemble at the Vatican in Rome to elect a new leader of the ...

WHEN Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected pope in 2013, he came almost from “the ends of the Earth,” as he himself put it. That ...

The body of the deceased Pope Francis was transferred on Wednesday to St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, where he will lie ...