At 7pm local time (6pm BST) public access to the queue to visit Francis’s coffin officially closed after it was visited by 250,000 people. The coffin, originally in Francis’s residence in the chapel ...

Associated Press reporter Nicole Winfield, who covered Pope Francis at the Vatican during his entire pontificate, earned the ...

In the streets around the Vatican, where Pope Francis used to make impromptu outings, some of the shopkeepers are mourning ...

Father Jim Sichko visiting Pope Francis as a Papal Missionary of Mercy. When Pope Francis stepped onto the loggia of St.