Cardinals have decided that the public viewing of Pope Francis will begin Wednesday in St. Peter’s Basilica, after his casket ...

Dozens of people gathered at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Buenos Aires to pray and pay homage to Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Pope ...

Cardinals are meeting at the Vatican to make the first decisions about running the Catholic Church following the death of ...

Pope Francis, who died on Monday, revised various rites last year, simplifying the funeral rituals to emphasize his role as a mere bishop and allowing for burial outside the Vatican in keeping with ...

Francis signaled a very different tone for the papacy, stressing humility over hubris for a Catholic Church beset by scandal ...

The death of a pope sets in motion a series of carefully orchestrated rites and rituals well before the conclave to elect his ...

Pope Francis’ funeral and burial explained as death kicks of series of rituals - Upon the pope’s death, the head of the Vatican health service examines the body ...

Pope Francis, a voice for the poor who overcame fierce resistance to reshape the Catholic Church, has died on Easter Monday, ...

Pope Francis, the first Latin-American pontiff, renowned for his outspoken advocacy for the poor and insistence on a more ...

Revelers wearing decorated hats and costumes participated in the annual Easter Parade and Bonnet Festival in New York City on ...

The death of Pope Francis has triggered a period of mourning in the Vatican and signals the start of a millennia-old process of picking a new pontiff.