Over three days this week, more than 250,000 people stood for hours in line to pay their final respects while Francis’ body lay in state in St. Peter’s Basilica.

The world watched the funeral of Pope Francis, and Msgr. Richard Hilgartner from the Archdiocese of Baltimore explains the significance of the service.

The choice of the basilica was also symbolically significant given its ties to Francis’ Jesuit religious order. St. Ignatius Loyola, who founded the Jesuits, celebrated his first Mass in the basilica ...

"He was dear to all people, very down to earth. You’ve never seen any of that kind of person, so humbled," said James Dmello, ...

Three seminarians from the Diocese of Grand Rapids have spent the past months studying abroad in Rome. After Pope Francis ...

Pope Francis's funeral dress code required dark suits for men and long black dresses for women. Social media buzzed over ...

President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky sat down for a short conversation at the Vatican Saturday ...

The Irish public’s relationship with the Catholic Church was ruptured by the clerical abuse scandals that began to break in the late 1980s, and the subsequent cover-up by a terrified hierarchy only ...

President Trump And First Lady Melania Trump Greet Guests At Pope Francis’ Funeral On Saturday, President Donald Trump and ...

US President Donald Trump was allegedly caught sleeping at Pope Francis' funeral in the Vatican on Saturday, April 26.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange joined the crowds on Saturday in Rome for Pope Francis’s funeral, according to AFP ...

It is not wrong to "criticise a prime minister who is strengthening an army that is in breach of international humanitarian ...