Proceedings began at 10am local time (9am BST) with the service taking place at St Peter's Basilica in front of 200,000 ...

In this majestic Saint Peter’s Square, where Pope Francis many times celebrated the Eucharist and presided over great ongoing ...

World leaders and Catholic faithful bid farewell to Pope Francis in a funeral reflecting his priorities and wishes.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is being laid to rest Saturday in a ceremony reflecting his priorities as pope and wishes as ...

Francis' "no" to women's ordination is not just the exclusion of women from a Church role. It is an insupportable and blatant rejection of women's full and equal dignity as acquired through God's gift ...

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Here’s a (non-exhaustive) look at what the film gets wrong — and gets right — about the process of electing a new pope.

Worship almost 15 years ago, my 3-year-old daughter sat in the back seat of the car. She asked question after question about ...

Francis had choreographed the funeral himself when he revised and simplified the Vatican's rites and rituals last year.

Virginia U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine has a special connection to Pope Francis and still feels fortunate he was once able to meet him ...

Among the estimated 200,000 people at the service are presidents Trump and Zelensky, who met briefly before the funeral began ...