The coffin of Pope Francis has been sealed in a private ceremony held by the Vatican ahead of Saturday’s funeral after 250,000 ... with Pope Francis’ open casket Pope Francis’s final moments ...

But although the pope eschewed pomp, a number of other rituals surrounding his funeral will follow ancient ... inside a wooden casket. The tomb has been prepared behind a wooden barrier within ...

US priest Cardinal Roger Mahony, who was accused of concealing a clerical child sex abuse scandal, was selected to participate in sealing Pope Francis' casket and preparing his burial, according ...

POPE Francis is carried on his final journey in a simple wooden casket yesterday as a million mourners bade an emotional farewell at his funeral. Royals and world leaders — including Prince ...

Pope Francis has arrived at Santa Maria Maggiore, also known as Saint Mary Major, which will be his final resting place. The pope is breaking with tradition and is the first pope in more than a ...

Pope Francis' casket was sealed in St. Peter’s Basilica ahead of his funeral on Saturday, April 26 Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022.

Advocates for victims of church abuse have hit out after it emerged a disgraced U.S. cardinal is to help close and seal Pope Francis’ casket ahead of his funeral on Saturday. Cardinal Roger ...

On Monday, Jan. 11, the Senate passed a bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal posthumously to Emmett Till ... Booker said. Till’s killing ignited the civil rights movement after Till’s mother ...

Pope Francis’ funeral has been set for Saturday at 2 a.m. CST in St. Peter’s Square. House Republicans push to sell hundreds of thousands of acres of public lands in the West Are Boiled Eggs ...

The funeral of Pope Francis will be simpler than those of previous popes, following instructions he set out himself. But as a head of state and leader of more than a billion Catholics worldwide ...

At a meeting on July 2, Moraitis said she specified to Tziotzis she wanted Helen’s body to be embalmed, and for there to be an open casket at the funeral. She also handed over black clothing and ...