President Droupadi Murmu will attend the state funeral of Pope Francis in Vatican City this week, the Ministry of External ...

The basilica will be kept open until at least midnight on Thursday to allow the faithful to mourn. Francis' funeral will be ...

The Vatican on Thursday said at least 130 foreign delegations had confirmed their attendance at Pope Francis's funeral, ...

Public visitation will come to an end Friday, April 25 before a funeral for Pope Francis takes place Saturday in St. Peter's Square.

Pope Francis became the church’s 266th in 2013 when the papal conclave elected him after the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI.

King Charles will not attend Pope Francis’s funeral due to royal protocol barring monarchs from papal ceremonies.

Vatican City and Italian State Police will be on the ground, water and in the air to prevent any security breaches at this Saturday's funeral for Pope Francis.

Earlier this year, Pope Francis named the Rev. Emil Kapaun 'venerable,' bringing him one step closer to canonization. The ...

So many people lined up to see Pope Francis lying in state at St. Peter’s Basilica that the Vatican kept the doors open all ...

On the night of his election on March 13, 2013, Pope Francis told the assembled faithful from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica that “tomorrow I wish to go and pray to the Madonna.” And so he did, ...

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

Thousands flooded through the walls of Vatican City as a procession of cardinals and pallbearers took the body of the late ...