Vatican authorities kept St. Peter's Basilica open all night as an estimated 50,000 people lined around St. Peter's Square ...

The last numbers released by the Vatican said more than 50,000 people had paid their last respects in the first 12 hours of ...

Pope Francis' funeral will take place at 6 a.m. ET on Saturday, April 26. Here's how to watch the service from home.

Pope Francis' funeral will be held Saturday after his coffin is sealed Friday evening at St. Peter’s Basilica. His tomb at ...

French-Argentine nun, Sister Genevieve Jeanningros, was seen in footage from the first day of Francis' lying-in-state ...

Thousands of believers waited in line on Thursday outside St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican to pay their last respects to ...

National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetang'ula has said he will fly to Italy to grace funeral of Pope Francis, who died on April ...

Although Pope Francis simplified the papal funeral rites in a move of typical modesty, Saturday’s ceremony will still be full of pomp and pageantry, as the world’s Catholics bid him farewell and ...

A change in popes is a complicated process. Here are the need-to-know terms — some of them in Latin — to help make sense of news in the coming days.

Pope Francis managed a gesture of farewell before he passed away early Saturday. Those around him said it appeared he didn't ...

BBC News Correspondent Mark Lowen caught up with one family from New York who described being able to pay their final ...