As pilgrims and world leaders alike prepared to say goodbye to Pope Francis at his funeral Saturday, Rome raced to get ready.

The Holy See Press has announced that the funeral of Pope Francis, the leader of the Catholic Church, will be held and ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The Trump administration is suing the city of Rochester, New York, over its policies as a “sanctuary city,” saying they violate the Constitution by deliberately impeding ...

Pope Francis’ face was forever hidden from the world when his coffin was closed at 8 o’clock on Friday evening, April 25, ...

Pope Francis' funeral at 10 a.m. (4 a.m. ET) on Saturday, April 26, will be “broadcast worldwide,” according to the Vatican, with a livestream on the Vatican website, and on Facebook and YouTube, alon ...

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

The man currently mourned by the world's 1.4 billion Catholics was a boy from a Buenos Aires barrio born to a working-class family of immigrants. An Argentinian and the first Latin American pontiff, ...

Tens of thousands of mourners have waited hours in line to bid farewell to Francis ahead of his funeral on Saturday.

The late Pope Francis came to Washington, D.C., to speak to a Joint Meeting of Congress on Sept. 24, 2015. He wasn’t the first pontiff to descend on Capitol Hill. But the pope is a head of state, ...

The Pope's coffin will be sealed this evening ahead of his funeral tomorrow, as world leaders start arriving in Rome to pay ...

A “promising” French skier poised to make her World Cup debut was killed in an accident while training for a competition this ...

A fter the death of Pope Francis on Easter Monday, April 21st, 2025, his body was moved to St. Peter’s Basilica. Today was ...