Vatican City • In a solemn and majestic funeral on the steps of St. Peter’s Basilica, the Roman Catholic Church on Saturday ...

Over three days this week, more than 250,000 people stood for hours in line to pay their final respects while Francis’ body lay in state in St. Peter’s Basilica.

The choice of the basilica was also symbolically significant given its ties to Francis’ Jesuit religious order. St. Ignatius Loyola, who founded the Jesuits, celebrated his first Mass in the basilica ...

TAIPEI: Taiwan's envoy to the funeral of Pope Francis said he prayed for President Lai Ching-te to be able to attend the ...

Three seminarians from the Diocese of Grand Rapids have spent the past months studying abroad in Rome. After Pope Francis ...

It's an ancient process shrouded in secrecy. Here's what happens when the College of Cardinals gather to choose a new pope.

Pope Francis’s funeral dress code required dark suits for men and long black dresses for women. Social media buzzed over ...

ROME - Romans cheered, clapped and cried on Saturday (April 26) as they watched the simple, open-topped, white "pope-mobile" ...

The artifacts, now in the possession of the Archdiocese of Palo, will forever bind the memories of faith of the people of ...

Pope Francis was laid to rest on Saturday after a service that drew thousands of people globally, and in our area, dozens of faithful gathered to celebrate his life.

More than 200,000 gathered at the Vatican on Saturday to say goodbye to Pope Francis, expressing gratitude for the pope known for his humanity.

The Irish public’s relationship with the Catholic Church was ruptured by the clerical abuse scandals that began to break in the late 1980s, and the subsequent cover-up by a terrified hierarchy only ...