Hundreds of thousands of mourners — monarchs and presidents, cardinals and sisters, Jubilee pilgrims and tourists — turned ...

Typically, popes are laid to rest beneath St. Peter's Basilica. On Saturday, Francis became the first Catholic leader in over ...

The Vatican, headquarters of the Catholic Church, is the smallest state in the world, with its own newspaper, national anthem ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Mercy – the cornerstone of Pope Francis’ teaching and ministry – must guide the Catholic Church through ...

Pope Francis was honored with a funeral Mass Saturday morning in the Vatican City's St. Peter's Square. These are some of the ...

He spent the rest of his pontificate going back out to those peripheries, traveling to more than 65 nations, preferring those that were poor, scarred by war, marginalized and forgotten. Then the ...

Millions around the world tuned in to watch as Pope Francis was laid to rest on Saturday, with 400,000 mourners alone paying ...

Tens of thousands of people flocked to the Vatican for Francis' funeral for a historic moment for the Catholic Church—and the ...

Roman Catholic faithful began visiting the tomb of Pope Francis on Sunday, filing past the simple white tomb in St. Mary ...

Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus has left Rome for home today (27 April), a day after joining the funeral mass of Pope Francis at St Peter's Square in Vatican City. He is expected to reach home in the ...

One of Pope Francis’ enduring legacies was that he greatly expanded the diversity of cardinals who will elect his successor, ...

World leaders and rank-and-file Catholic faithful have said farewell to Pope Francis in a funeral that highlighted his ...