It was inevitable that the death of Pope Francis, would lead to rumination about a successor. Now that that he has been laid ...

The Vatican is closing the Sistine Chapel to the public as part of its preparations for the the conclave to elect the next ...

Roman Catholic faithful began visiting the tomb of Pope Francis on Sunday, filing past the simple white tomb in St. Mary ...

A popular saying in Vatican circles is that if you “enter a conclave as pope, you leave as a cardinal.”It implies the<a ...

Presidents, royalty, pilgrims attend funeral Mass Vatican estimates crowd of 250,000 at the event Pope’s casket taken through ...

Thousands of faithful gathered since from early hours of Sunday at Rome's Papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major to pray and pay ...

World leaders from 160 nations as well as members of the royal families of Europe joined a congregation of 200,000 Romans and ...

Crowds of mourners waited in line on Sunday for a chance to visit Pope Francis’ final resting place in the Santa Maria ...

Hundreds of thousands of mourners — monarchs and presidents, cardinals and sisters, Jubilee pilgrims and tourists — turned ...

The Pope, famous—perhaps foremost—for his insistence on simplicity and aversion to clerical glitz, wanted to be buried not at ...

Typically, popes are laid to rest beneath St. Peter's Basilica. On Saturday, Francis became the first Catholic leader in over ...