NBC News gained behind-the-scenes access to St. Peter's Basilica as thousands of people waited in hours-long lines to pay ...

Key figures from across the globe are set to attend the funeral of Pope Francis on April 26. Here's what we know so far.

Thousands of people began filing through St. Peter’s Basilica to pay their final respects to Pope Francis on Wednesday at the ...

People waited for hours for the chance to enter St. Peter’s Basilica and pay their respects to Pope Francis. NBC News’ Tom ...

Thousands of people began filing through St. Peter’s Basilica to pay their final respects to Pope Francis on Wednesday at the ...

Thousands of people filed through the central aisle of St. Peter’s Basilica to pay their final respects to Pope Francis on ...

Pope Francis, who died this week at age 88 of a stroke at the Vatican, will be buried on Saturday.World leaders and ...

Throngs of ordinary faithful made their way slowly to the 16th-century basilica's main altar, where Francis' simple wooden casket was perched.

VATICAN CITY ( WGN) — Catholics in Italy are now able to pay their respects to Pope Francis, as a public viewing began Wednesday before his funeral this weekend.

The grand and solemn procession, with all the trappings of a sacred rite, by which the body of Pope Francis was transferred ...

A cardinal convicted of fraud and embezzlement by the Vatican and designated as a “non-elector” is demanding he be allowed to ...