Follow live coverage from Pope Francis's funeral as world leaders gather in Rome. Francis died on Easter Monday after 13 ...

Pope Francis's funeral honored his legacy with symbolic items like his miter, crozier, rosary, fisherman's ring and more. Here's what each represents.

While Francis’ funeral processions have broken with tradition in a variety of ways — including allowing the public to view his body — the mass will involve a series of longtime Catholic symbols and ...

Pope Francis' deliberate choices set a new precedent that could reshape how future popes are memorialized. By discarding ornate traditions—including the use of three nested coffins and burial in the ...

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 ...

Around 250,000 mourners paid their respects to Pope Francis during the three-day public viewing at St. Peter’s Basilica ...

In light of Pope Francis’ death on April 21, Catholic authorities are preparing the much-anticipated process to decide upon ...

Cardinal Kevin Farrell, the camerlengo, will preside at the Rite of Sealing of the Coffin beginning at 8 p.m. Rome time on ...

An Austin mortuary employee has been arrested for allegedly "experimenting" on corpses and fraudulently obtaining death certificates, according to court documents.

An elderly woman who was pronounced dead at a hospital ' came back to life ' while being transported to her own funeral.

Pope Francis himself helped rewrite the funeral rituals after the death of his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI.