Archbishop Robert Casey will remember and pray for "the repose of the soul of Pope Francis" at four Masses throughout the ...

The last numbers released by the Vatican said more than 50,000 people had paid their last respects in the first 12 hours of ...

Francis did away with that sort of viewing. Instead, a procession brought his coffin on Wednesday directly to St. Peter’s ...

The Vatican opted to extend the visiting hours at St. Peter's Basilica on the evening of Wednesday, April 23, as thousands of ...

The body of Pope Francis is now lying in state in St. Peter's Basilica. The pontiff’s mortal remains, lying in an open wooden ...

Pope Benedict XVI was installed as the 265th pope of the Roman Catholic Church on April 24, 2005, becoming the first German ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Thousands of people filed through the central aisle of St. Peter’s Basilica to pay their final respects ...

In St. Paul, a special art gallery is open featuring hundreds of works by Holocaust survivor Lucy Kreisler Smith, who ...

Rome is always teeming, and Easter usually kicks off the long tourist season. Up to 250,000 are expected to attend the Pope's ...

Even though cardinals don’t campaign for the job, there are always front-runners going into a conclave to choose the next ...

The faithful will be flocking to Rome to honor the death of Pope Francis, with his funeral scheduled for Saturday April 26.