The burial of the pontiff will be on Saturday at the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, the first time a pontiff is ...

There are time-honoured rituals, some shrouded in secrecy, and a series of carefully planned events that are likely to take ...

Pope Francis had expressed the desire to be buried in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, a fifth-century church in Rome.

The Catholic Church mourns Pope Francis's death after almost 12 years of service. Saint Peter is historically known as the ...

For six days in September, 2015, Pope Francis made a historic visit to the United States, visiting some of the country's ...

Religious communities around the world joined Catholics mourning the death of Pope Francis on Easter Monday. Francis' election as the spiritual leader of the nearly 1.4 billion baptized Catholics ...