The cardinals set the funeral for Saturday at 10 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square, to be celebrated by the dean of the College of Cardinals, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re.

Grief and tributes for Pope Francis were shared around the world Tuesday, a day after the popular pontiff died at age 88.

In the weeks that follow the passing of a pontiff, the city of Rome, and the Vatican in particular, comes alive with ...

Just hours before his death, Pope Francis expressed gratitude for being able to join worshippers on St Peter's Square on ...

Every pope has his critics. But Pope Francis’ conservative opponents were unique in that they actually had a living alternate as a point of reference. Pope Benedict XVI lived as a pope emeritus in the ...

This is why I said earlier that these are pages born “from the thought and the affection” of Cardinal Scola: not only from thought, but also from the emotional dimension, which is the one to which ...

Pope Francis, who died Monday, will be laid to rest in the days ahead following a Saturday funeral service sure to draw leaders from around the world.

Peter was the first pontiff of the Catholic church, and several popes have been considered "great" in the interim.

(James Hill | The New York Times) Bishops and cardinals during the funeral service of Pope Benedict XVI at St. Peter's ...

Although Francis did not change doctrine, he was revolutionary in every other way. The stylistic change was immediately ...

When Francis became the first Latin American pope in 2013, many hoped he would reverse the Roman Catholic Church’s decline in ...

The Italian Space Agency paid tribute to Pope Francis in the wake of his death early Monday morning (April 21).