The Vatican has announced Pope Francis's funeral will take place on Saturday at 10:00 local time. It will be led by the dean ...

As tributes poured in from around the globe for Pope Francis, who died April 21, 2025, an AI-generated image of the Catholic ...

Video released by Vatican News via YouTube on January 22 showed Pope Francis on a video call with the Holy Family Catholic ...

In St Peter's Square, believers and tourists alike gathered to pay their respects, some bearing flowers or candles ...

Pope Francis' body will be moved to St Peter's Basilica on Wednesday to allow Catholic faithful to pay their final respects ...

Francis died on Monday at the age of 88. Vatican officials later announced he suffered a stroke that put him in a coma and led to heart failure. In his final will, the Argentine-born pope said he ...

Understanding the politics of the cardinals—and how Francis may have influenced the election of his successor.

Liberals hoped he’d ordain women or allow gay marriage. Conservatives thought he’d tear up Church doctrine. But his papacy ...

VATICAN CITY — Few could have predicted that a comment Pope Francis made during a 2018 visit to Chile would blow up into the ...

Pope Francis’ body will be moved to St. Peter’s Basilica to lie in state allowing the Catholic faithful to pay their respects to the Argentine pope ...

Like his predecessors, Pope Francis was selected using an age-old method — a system known as the Papal conclave.

Pope Francis’ decision to simplify his funeral rites — including breaking with the tradition of being buried in three ...