The decision by Pope Francis to break with tradition and be buried at the Papal Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome rather ...

President Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine are among the world leaders who plan to attend the funeral. The ...

More than 250,000 people paid their respects to the pontiff at his funeral in front of St. Peter’s Basilica, the Vatican said ...

More than 200,000 people are expected to attend Pope Francis's funeral in St Peter's Square. He will then be buried in Rome's ...

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

Artists from more than two dozen countries portrayed works of faith at the Church’s 13th International Art Competition.

Seven seminarians are scheduled to be ordained deacons by Bishop Michael F. Burbidge April 26. They will be assigned to ...

A change in popes is a complicated process. Here are the need-to-know terms — some of them in Latin — to help make sense of ...

His public persona may have been the humble and patient father figure, but Francis spent his 12 years as pope reorganizing the Vatican bureaucracy — the Roman curia — with more than a touch of ...

The test of these changes. — some of which were only finalized three years ago — will come in the closed-door power brokering that goes on around the conclave, which will elect a new pope. The process ...

Before he became Pope Francis, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was a devotee of La Virgen Desatanudos — Mary the untier of ...

For six days in September, 2015, Pope Francis made a historic visit to the United States, visiting some of the country's ...