Thousands of people have begun filing through St. Peter’s Basilica to pay their final respects to Pope Francis at the start of three days of public viewing ahead of his funeral ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The death of a pope triggers a centuries-old ritual to elect a new one, involving sacred oaths, the ...

JD Vance, along with his wife, Usha Vance, and their three children, visited Vatican City during Easter weekend ...

Members of the College of Cardinals will cast their votes behind the closed and locked doors of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel.

The passing of “Papa Francesco” recalls an accidental, frantic and ultimately transformational experience at the Vatican.

The 88-year-old pontiff, who died Monday from a stroke and subsequent heart failure, grew emotional while expressing his ...

Locked inside the Vatican with no phones, no contact, and only ballots and smoke signals. A centuries-old ritual is quietly ...

Following the death of Pope Francis, the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church will gather at some point next month to elect ...

Following the death of Pope Francis, the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church will gather at some point next month to elect ...

Pope Francis died on Easter Monday at the age of 88 from a stroke and irreversible heart failure, and was in a coma before ...

Pope Francis died at 88 in the Vatican on Easter Monday 2025, leaving the papacy vacant. Here's what a conclave is and how accurate the movie was.

The death of a pope starts a centuries-old ritual involving sacred oaths by the cardinals electing a successor, the piercing of ballots with a needle and thread after they’re counted, and then burning ...