Pope Francis died on April 21, 2025. Many world leaders are expected to attend his funeral in Vatican City, including ...

The Society of Jesus is a Roman Catholic order founded in 1540 by Saint Ignatius of Loyola committed to spirituality and ...

Pope Francis, who chose his papal name after the 13th-century figure St. Francis of Assisi, known as the patron saint of ...

The conclave is a time-honored process conducted in secrecy behind the locked doors of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel.

The funeral drew world leaders, including President Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, who had a talk in the ...

The cardinals eligible to vote for the new pope will gather in the coming weeks and enter seclusion to secretly vote for the new bishop of Rome.

The pope’s unadorned tomb, marked by a single Latin word — Franciscus — was intended, a cleric said, to reflect a life of ...

Pope Francis's funeral begins at 10 a.m. local time (4 a.m. Eastern, 1 a.m. Pacific) at the Vatican, outside St. Peter's ...

Pope Francis was laid to rest in the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome on Saturday after a funeral mass at St. Peter's ...

The late pontiff’s health concerns in recent years led to contenders to succeed him foreseeing a papabile ahead of his death ...

The late Pope Francis continued his legacy as an open-armed trailblazer by opening the sacred portal of the Vatican and dying ...

VATICAN CITY – Roman Catholic faithful began visiting the tomb of Pope Francis on Sunday, filing past the simple white tomb ...