Marguerite O’Leary and her teenage daughter Ellen stood for more than five hours on Wednesday to be among the first members ...

The Vatican is stepping up its security as thousands of people are descending on Rome ahead of Pope Francis' funeral on ...

The late Pope Francis lies in state this evening in St Peter’s Basilica just across from here. He was carried in a plain wooden casket in a procession of red robed cardinals, bishops, priests and ...

Pope Francis, controversial head of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics and LGBTQ ally, died early on Easter Monday from a cerebral hemorrhage.

A change in popes — through death or resignation — is a complicated process, with centuries-old rituals involving the transition in leadership for both the spiritual head of the global Catholic Church ...

From 11am on Wednesday 23 April, hundreds of thousands of faithful Catholics will be able to bid farewell to Pope Francis in ...

Follow our live feed as the faithful pay their respects to the late pontiff of the Catholic Church at the heart of Vatican ...

Catholic faithful gathered for multiple events in Toronto and Montreal to commemorate the late Pope Francis on Tuesday, a day ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Thousands of people began filing through St. Peter’s Basilica to pay their final respects to Pope Francis ...

Throughout the day people filed past the coffin, some blessing themselves with the sign of the cross or pausing briefly in ...