A conclave to choose a new pope normally takes place 15 to 20 days after the death of a pontiff, meaning this conclave should ...

Pope Francis’s body arrived at Saint Peter’s Basilica on Wednesday to lie in ... by pallbearers the 500 metres (yards) from the Casa Santa Marta where he lived and died, behind a procession ...

A conclave to choose a new pope normally takes place 15 to 20 days after the death of a pontiff, meaning this conclave should not start before May 6.

Sergio Alfieri, his surgeon, said Pope Francis failed to respond to any stimuli as he lay open-eyed in a coma shortly before ...

Francis was laid out in red robes, clasping a rosary and wearing a ... pontiff's casket was transported from his residence at Casa Santa Marta to the basilica this morning. Mourners, including ...

The conclave to elect the next pope is now underway at the Vatican. The cardinals — the prelates who are just below the pope ...

Families, seminarians and state Catholic conference executive joined the crowds converging on St. Peter’s Square to honor the ...

Pope Francis has long advocated for immigrants, refugees, and the vulnerable—but the Church, like other institutions, may need to find new ways to sustain its commitments.

Dressed in his papal vestments — a red chasuble, white mitre and black shoes — and with a rosary ... Casa Santa Marta, where he lived during his 12-year papacy, to St Peter’s, as the ...

The pope passed away at 7:35 a.m. local time on Easter Monday, April 21, at his residence in the Vatican’s Casa Santa ... with a rosary in his hands in front of St. Peter’s Basilica.