His entire life was dedicated to the service of the Lord and of His Church ... buried not in St Peter's Basilica or its grottoes, where most popes are buried, but in the St Mary Major Basilica ...

Pope Francis’s funeral will be held on April 26, 2025, as many world leaders will attend to honour the Catholic leader.

There was more clapping and church bells rang out as the popemobile emerged from a tunnel and crossed the Tiber River. The ...

Yet the cardinals in the Sistine Chapel chose Robert Francis Prevost, a 69-year-old Chicago native, as the 267th pope of the ...

An estimated 600 to 700 people at the 22nd annual Asian and Pacific Island Catholics Marian Pilgrimage to the Basilica of the ...

Indian security forces launched aerial assaults against what they said were nine terrorist centers inside Pakistan early on May 7. The attack left 31 dead.

With the death of Pope Francis, announced by the Vatican on Monday, the Roman Catholic Church will begin elaborate rituals ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and ...

After the ballots are pierced, they are burned in a cylindrical stove at the end of the voting session. Black smoke from the Sistine Chapel chimney means no decision; white smoke signals the cardinals ...

Francis, the 266th pope, oversaw a rise in the global population of Catholics and diversification of the College of Cardinals. These changes could influence who is elected as his successor.

The late pontiff’s coffin was transported outside Vatican City into Rome, where it was buried at the Basilica of Saint Mary ... for the Church of Rome on the Monday evening at St Peter’s ...