Pope Francis’ wooden coffin will be sealed on Friday night, in a private rite that officially ends three days of his body ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis chose his place of burial in St. Mary Major Basilica, near an icon of the Madonna that he revered, ...

More than 250,000 people paid their last respects to Pope Francis over three days of public viewing by ordinary mourners and ...

The next Pope will inherit not only Pope Francis ’s bold and controversial legacy of institutional reform, but also the ...

The Vatican was making final preparations for Pope Francis's funeral as the last of the huge crowds of mourners gather to ...

The pope's funeral will take place Saturday in Rome and Guelph's Cardinal Thomas Collins will be there for the ceremony and ...

Some 250,000 mourners paid their respects to Pope Francis over a three-day lying-in-state, the Vatican said on the eve of his ...

World leaders are arriving for the funeral of Pope Francis, as the final mourners have been slowly filing past the coffin, which will sit in front of the Papal Altar until the funeral on Saturday.

Public queue to pay respects for last time as world leaders fly in for Vatican ceremony - Pope Francis’s funeral will be held ...