VATICAN CITY (AP) — From some of the world’s most powerful leaders to those on society’s margins whom Pope Francis always ...

Pope Francis’ funeral will be held on Saturday morning, marking the first of nine days of mourning. The Vatican has also released images of the late Pope in an open casket.

The photos showed him in a wooden casket ... at attention as Farrell blessed Francis with holy water, the pope’s hands clasped around a rosary. The pope's formal apartments in the Apostolic ...

“And I thought, ‘Wow, this is even more meaningful than I realized’ — that, you know, Christ’s Blood shed for us on Good ...

Hundreds of thousands of mourners, including dozens of world leaders, flocked to Rome to pay their respect to Pope Francis.

If I told you that I visited Notre-Dame de Paris in March of this year and that, while there, I had begun to get this strange ...

A picture shows a Catholic cardinal sealing ... and the priestly and episcopal ministry to the Mother of Our Lord, Mary Most Holy. Therefore, I ask that my mortal remains rest waiting for the ...

Pope Francis chose his place of burial in St. Mary Major Basilica, near an icon of the Madonna that he revered, because it reflects his “humble, simple and essential’’ life, the ...

Maria Beatriz del Rosario Arroyo y Pidal (1884-1957) founded the Dominican Sisters of the Most Holy Rosary ... Marian images Pope Francis was widely known for his Marian devotion, ensuring that he ...

As the crowd dispersed and the bells tolled one last time for the man in white, it was clear the church he left behind had been changed forever.

Borges and her group were on a Holy ... second rosary prayer for Pope Francis at Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica in Rome today. Candles were lit on either side of the icon of the Virgin Mary Salus ...

Cardinals assembled in Rome have begun the process of confirming the late Pope's funeral arrangements. | ITV National News ...