According to the Vatican, Francis' funeral will take place in front of the St. Peter's Basilica in Rome this Saturday. It ...

New video footage from the Vatican shows the sealing of the papal apartments after the death of Pope Francis. Samuel Alito ...

After Pope Francis’s death at the age of 88, the process of electing the next pontiff will begin. Cardinal electors, the vast ...

According to tradition, the camerlengo certifies the pope’s death, seals the papal apartment and breaks the pope’s ...

In his landmark 2015 encyclical “Praised Be,” Pope Francis cast care for the planet as an urgent and existential moral ...

This is Latin for “having had mercy and choosing him” — a phrase that Francis chose as his motto when he was elevated to ...

The Vatican has announced the funeral for Pope Francis will take place on Saturday in what is expected to be a scaled-down ...

In addition, a Vatican financial adviser under Pope Pope Paul VI, Michele Sindona, also had ties to organized crime and ...

Megyn Kelly, the former Fox News host, unleashed a sharp critique of the late pontiff’s leadership and political stance, ...

The Holy Father, who died April 21 on Easter Monday, was recalled as an agent of peace in the war-torn Middle East and beyond ...

As the Vatican prepares the funeral for Pope Francis and church leaders begin to consider his replacement, we look at the late pontiff’s environmental legacy. Pope Francis frequently called for action ...

Following the death of Pope Francis, a cardinal from the United States has become acting head of the Vatican until a new ...