Cardinals have agreed that the traditional nine days of mourning for the pope, the so-called novemdiales, will begin on ...

A retired US cardinal who has faced accusations of mishandling sexual abuse cases was chosen to help seal Pope Francis’s ...

Italian and Vatican authorities have placed the area around St Peter’s under tight security ahead of the funeral. Read more ...

So many mourners lined up to see Pope Francis lying in state in a simple wooden coffin inside St. Peter’s Basilica that the ...

Pope Francis has continued to break with traditions even in death, requesting several changes to the ceremony and burial that ...