Pope Francis will be laid to rest April 26 at Rome’s Basilica of St. Mary Major, in keeping with his final wishes. The decision breaks a 300-year tradition of papal burials at St. Peter’s Basilica in ...

On the night of his election on March 13, 2013, Pope Francis told the assembled faithful from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica that “tomorrow I wish to go and pray to the Madonna.” And so he did, ...

Alongside the gossip and the gallows humor, the ancient and solemn rituals continue,” Chiara Barzini writes from Italy.

Thousands flooded through the walls of Vatican City as a procession of cardinals and pallbearers took the body of the late ...

The pope’s portrait is everywhere these days. Here, we found it in a store of liturgical paraphernalia in central Rome. There were also many other symbols around, as a testament to how religion and ...

Roger Yu, a gay man from the Philippines who abandoned plans to become a priest, said he was in Italy to pay homage to Pope ...

In the streets around the Vatican, where Pope Francis used to make impromptu outings, some of the shopkeepers are mourning ...

The basilica will be kept open until at least midnight on Thursday to allow the faithful to mourn. Francis' funeral will be ...

Pope Francis is breaking with tradition when it comes to where he will be laid to rest – choosing a light-filled basilica ...

So many people lined up to see Pope Francis lying in state at St. Peter’s Basilica that the Vatican kept the doors open all ...

St. Peter's Basilica closed its doors just briefly in the early hours and then opened again to welcome crowds of worshippers ...

The basilica was bathed in a hushed silence as mourners from across the globe made a slow, shuffling procession up the main ...