The basilica was bathed in a hushed silence as mourners from across the globe made a slow, shuffling procession up the main ...

The selfies taken with Pope Francis' body in his open casket have been described as "awful" and "distasteful." ...

Thousands flooded through the walls of Vatican City as a procession of cardinals and pallbearers took the body of the late ...

More than 60,000 people have visited St Peter’s Basilica to bid farewell to Pope Francis. The queue started again at 6 am on ...

The funeral will start at 10:00 a.m. (0800 GMT) on Saturday. Fabio Ciciliano, head of the national Civil Protection ...

Cardinals could pick a progressive pope ready to build off the changes Francis brought to the church or a conservative who could ratchet them back.

Although Pope Francis simplified the papal funeral rites in a move of typical modesty, Saturday’s ceremony will still be full ...

Cardinal Vincent Nichols said Pope Francis had ‘died with his boots on’ and made a ‘total sacrifice’ in his life to the ...

One student is dead and at least three people seriously hurt in a Thursday French school stabbing. The 15-year-old attacker ...

Pope Francis, who died this week at age 88 of a stroke at the Vatican, will be buried on Saturday. World leaders and ...

A couple celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary have told of the “significance” of being able to attend Pope Francis’s wake in Rome – having first met decades ago at another papal event. Patrick ...