Royalty, presidents, prime ministers and a legion of faithful will pay their last respects to Pope Francis on Saturday at a ...

Ireland has been blessed to host two papal visits in the last 50 years. The visits bookended a period in a country that had undergone significant change in its Catholic faith. Comparing Pope Francis’ ...

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

The Vatican has ended the three-day public viewing of Pope Francis in Rome, with an estimated 250,000 people visiting St.

The late Pope Francis was “a man of the heart” who preached tenderness and mercy to the global Church, New York archbishop ...

Two weeks after his surprise election as pontiff, Pope Francis carried out the Maundy Thursday ritual of washing and kissing ...

Saturday’s funeral will kick off the traditional Novendiales, nine consecutive days of mourning for the suffrage of the late ...

As Pope Francis' death affects Catholics in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis as well as members of various faith ...

The death of Pope Francis sets into motion a series of rituals, some of which go back more than 2,000 years, including how to choose the new pope. Here's what happens next.

While in the hospital during his last illness, Pope Francis was hard at work — and that important work included a focus on holy lives, including declaring American military chaplain Father Emil Kapaun ...

Pope Francis's death at the age of 88 means the Catholic Church must choose a new leader. Here's how cardinals elect the next ...

The coffin, originally in Francis’s residence in the chapel of the Santa Marta, had been moved to St Peter’s Basilica on ...