The Sistine Chapel, nestled deep within Vatican City's guarded walls, is instantly recognized for Michelangelo's artistic ...

The April 26 funeral is expected to draw hundreds of thousands of pilgrims, as well as world leaders. Read more at ...

Bells rang out as the Pope's coffin was carried across St Peter's Square to lie in state ahead of the funeral on Saturday.

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On Saturday, thousands of local and international Christian worshippers seeking to enter Jerusalem's Old City for the Easter ...

Pope Francis, who rose from janitor to the Catholic Church’s most powerful leader by proving equally at ease with ...

People stand next to a photograph of Pope Francis placed at Saint Anthony Catholic church in Istanbul, Turkey, Monday, April ...

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The first Latin American-born pope died at the age of 88 in the Vatican on Easter Monday after returning from an extended ...

The news of his death, announced by the Vatican on Monday morning, reverberated across the globe, with people mourning the ...

Pope Francis, who visited the U.S. multiple times during his 12 years as the head of the Catholic Church but never to Houston ...

Pope Francis’s final public appearance took place on Easter Sunday, when he appeared on a balcony at St. Peter’s Basilica to ...