VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is being laid to rest Saturday in a ceremony reflecting his priorities as pope and wishes as ...

Crowds of mourners waited in line on Sunday for a chance to visit Pope Francis’ final resting place in the Santa Maria ...

Planning a trip to Rome is all about preparation. The Eternal City is full of history, architecture, and culture. It’s more ...

The Vatican, headquarters of the Catholic Church, is the smallest state in the world, with its own newspaper, national anthem ...

The Vatican is closing the Sistine Chapel to the public as part of its preparations for the conclave to elect the next pope ...

He will be the first pope in more than a century to be buried outside the Vatican’s ancient ... city was already buzzing with religious pilgrims because of the once-every-25-years jubilee. Rome ...

In a break from tradition, Pope Francis chose to be buried outside the Vatican at the Basilica of St. Mary Major (Santa Maria ...

After 12 years as the spiritual leader of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis died early this morning at the age of 88.

The death of Pope Francis sets into motion a series of rituals, some of which go back more than 2,000 years, including how to ...

With St. Peter’s, St. John Lateran, St. Paul Outside the Walls, it is one of four basilicas in Rome granted special status by ...

Pope Francis’ funeral Mass has ended, and cardinals have filed back into St. Peter’s Basilica. The crowd applauded as ...

VATICAN CITY — The Roman Catholic Church ... The circuitous procession traversed the Tiber River and symbols of the city’s ancient power, the Roman Forum and Colosseum, as clusters of ...