President Michael D Higgins and his wife Sabina have travelled to Rome to attend the funeral of Pope Francis. They will pay ...

The Vatican will make final preparations Friday for Pope Francis’s funeral as the last of the huge crowds of mourners file ...

Videos circulating online falsely claim that the Philippines' Cardinal Tagle has already been elected pope; the conclave to ...

So many mourners lined up to see Pope Francis lying in state in a simple wooden coffin inside St. Peter’s Basilica that the ...

The Vatican will make final preparations today (25 April) for Pope Francis's funeral as the last of the huge crowds of mourners file through St Peter's Basilica to view his open coffin.  Many of the ...

In the wake of Pope Francis' death, the process to elect a new pope will soon begin -- sparking speculation that an American ...

Heads of state and royalty will start converging on Rome on Friday for the funeral of Pope Francis in the Vatican's St. Peter's Square, but the group of poor people who will meet his casket in a small ...

The papal conclave is a tradition dating back to the 13th century. Cardinals are sequestered in the Vatican and take a vow of ...

President Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine are among the world leaders who plan to attend the funeral. The ...

A popular expression of Pope Francis was his phrase “the God of surprises.” That phrase was often turned against Francis by ...

So many mourners lined up to see Pope Francis lying in state in a simple wooden coffin inside St. Peter’s Basilica that the ...

Cardinals could pick a progressive pope ready to build off the changes Francis brought to the church or a conservative who could ratchet them back.