The Vatican will make final preparations Friday for Pope Francis's funeral as the last of the huge crowds of mourners file ...

They put him ahead of Filipino Luis Antonio Tagle, the Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Manila, followed by Ghana's Cardinal Peter Turkson, and Matteo Zuppi, the Archbishop of Bologna.

It’s nothing to laugh off, however tempting. If the movies imitate life, we may not be as far away from an African pope. It ...