Pope Francis, who chose his papal name after the 13th-century figure St. Francis of Assisi, known as the patron saint of ...

Pope Francis died on April 21, 2025. Many world leaders are expected to attend his funeral in Vatican City, including ...

Vatican City • In a solemn and majestic funeral on the steps of St. Peter’s Basilica, the Roman Catholic Church on Saturday ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Thousands of young people from around the world had come to Rome expecting to rejoice this weekend in the ...

Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re eulogized Pope Francis at his funeral, calling him "a pope among the people, with an open heart ...

Pope Francis, the pontiff whose acts of love and humility rippled through his papacy, was laid to rest in a service he ...

Kielce Gussie, a U.S. journalist who works for Vatican News, gave the first reading at the funeral of Pope Francis.

"It was a powerful shared moment of prayer," one Long Island pastor said of the funeral Mass Saturday in St. Peter's Square.

Pope Francis's funeral honored his legacy with symbolic items like his miter, crozier, rosary, fisherman's ring and more.

It's very beautiful that he's going back, having concluded his ministry, to the place where it began," Father Patrick Briscoe ...

Catholics, atheists, Muslims and more, from around the world, tell of how the pope’s life and leadership inspired them.

Yet his message throughout his ministry was to dare each of us to dream that life in its fullest — with a message of freedom ...