A couple celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary have told of the “significance” of being able to attend Pope Francis’s wake in Rome – having first met decades ago at another papal event. Patrick ...

Although Pope Francis simplified the papal funeral rites in a move of typical modesty, Saturday’s ceremony will still be full ...

One student is dead and at least three people seriously hurt in a Thursday French school stabbing. The 15-year-old attacker ...

More than 60,000 people have visited St Peter’s Basilica to bid farewell to Pope Francis. The queue started again at 6 am on ...

So many people lined up to see Pope Francis lying in state at St. Peter’s Basilica that the Vatican kept the doors open all ...

Father Darren Dias, executive director of the faculty of theology at the University of St. Michael's College, says the ...

The European Court of Human Rights announced Thursday it has determined that French law and practice failed to protect three ...

Cardinals could pick a progressive pope ready to build off the changes Francis brought to the church or a conservative who ...

Mourners from across the globe made a slow, shuffling procession up the main aisle of St. Peter’s Basilica to pay their last ...

From patrols on the River Tiber to surveillance drones and snipers deployed around St. Peter's Square, Rome is preparing to ...

Professor Anna Rowlands discusses the mourners who have gathered on St. Peter’s Basilica to honor the late pontiff.

What Pope Francis left behind in his last will and testament - Alongside the will, the Vatican announced the pope died ...