Instead, Francis will be buried in a single, zinc-lined wooden coffin. The late pope will also not be put on display atop a ...

Hundreds of thousands filled St. Peter’s Square and lined the streets of Vatican City to bid a solemn farewell to a widely ...

The U.S.-born pope spent about a dozen years as a missionary in Peru and returned there later to serve as a bishop.

About 250,000 mourners in Vatican City fell into hushed silence on Saturday morning as the funeral for Pope Francis began. The church choir echoed through loudspeakers across the city-state. Some ...

Still, it was an exciting moment for the Americans who were at the Vatican that day. Mariner says he and his wife were in a ...

President Trump said on his social media platform Truth Social Monday – following news of Pope Francis's death – that he and ...

Pope Francis was laid to rest in private in St. Mary Major Basilica. Security was tightened in Rome as world leaders attended the funeral ceremonies. DW has the latest.

The faithful will be flocking to Rome to honor the death of Pope Francis, who died on April 21, with his funeral scheduled for Saturday April 26 at 10 a.m.. Given his relatively liberal policies ...

Pope Leo XIV made his first outing since his election and visited Rome, where he visited Pope Francis' tomb and prayed there.

Earlier this year, Pope Francis spent weeks battling a life-threatening case of pneumonia in both his lungs after he was hospitalized for bronchitis. He was admitted Feb. 14 to a Rome hospital ...