The Vatican has published pictures of the open coffin with the body of Pope Francis. Cardinals and Vatican employees can bid farewell in the chapel.

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

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Though undoubtedly a genuine man of God with an inspiring love of the marginalised, Francis was the Great Disrupter, in many ways the Catholic Church’s version of Donald Trump. Both men would hate the ...

Pope Francis, 88, died Monday morning at the Vatican. Cardinal Camerlengo Kevin Joseph Farrell was seen sealing the door to ...

The leader of the world’s 1 billion Roman Catholics addressed past scandals and embraced migrants, the poor and gay and lesbian faithful. Some wished he’d gone further.

When the late Pope Francis first stepped on to the balcony of Saint Peter's Basilica following his election 12 years ago, he ...

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Once Pope Francis' funeral is finished, all eyes will turn to the process of determining a new pontiff known as the conclave.

As the world awaits his funeral, it is time for the Catholic world to reflect on his legacy The death of Pope Francis on Easter Monday marked the end of an era in the Roman Catholic Church, one shaped ...