VATICAN CITY (AP) — So many mourners lined up to see Pope Francis lying in state in a simple wooden coffin inside St. Peter’s ...

The day before his heartbreaking death, Pope Francis welcome JD Vance into his Vatican City home. But in the hours leading up ...

Southland Catholics will get a chance to honor the late Pope Francis on Friday during a memorial Mass at the Cathedral of Our ...

Thousands flooded through the walls of Vatican City as a procession of cardinals and pallbearers took the body of the late ...

A conclave to choose a new pope normally takes place 15 to 20 days after the death of a pontiff, meaning this conclave should ...

Even as he was dying, Pope Francis kept to a routine that had become a near-daily ritual for him over the past 18 months: calling the only Catholic church in Gaza.

The parish priest of Gaza's only Catholic church talks about getting daily calls from Pope Francis during the Israel-Hamas ...

It's very possible the next pope could be from Africa, where the Catholic Church continues to add millions of members.

Emilio Morenatti, chief photographer in Spain for The Associated Press, arrived in St. Peter’s Square before sunrise to wait ...

Pope Francis is lying in state in St Peter's Basilica, where tens of thousands of mourners will file past his open casket over the next three days to pay their respects. Watch live footage from inside ...

The Vatican opened St. Peter’s Basilica to the general public Wednesday to pay their final respects to Pope Francis, with thousands of people filling the central aisle and Swiss Guards standing at ...

Rome is always teeming, and Easter usually kicks off the long tourist season. Up to 250,000 are expected to attend the Pope's ...