The doors opened to St. Peter’s Basilica at 5:40 a.m. on Friday, and people immediately began to trickle in to pay their last respects to Pope Francis, whose body lay
The doors opened to St. Peter’s Basilica at 5:40 a.m. on Friday, and people immediately began to trickle in to pay their last respects to Pope Francis, whose body lay
Priests, pilgrims and cardinals dressed in black robes and red sashes mixed in the streets of the Vatican on Thursday as tens of thousands of Catholics paid their respects to
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis’ doctor has recounted the pontiff’s final moments in a pair of newspaper interviews, saying the pontiff had his eyes open and was breathing with oxygen,
Sarah Rainsford and Laura Gozzi EPA Thousands of people have queued through the night to pay their respects to Pope Francis, whose body is being displayed in an open coffin
Swiss Guards accompany the pallbearers with the wooden coffin of Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Square on April 23, 2025, during the translatio — the solemn transfer of the pope’s
Aleem Maqbool, Rebecca Seales & Paul Kirby BBC News Getty Images Pope candidates (left to right) Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, cardinal Pietro Parolin, cardinal Luis Antonio Gokim Tagle, and
Pope Francis died of a stroke and subsequent heart failure, the Vatican has said in a statement, revealing that the pontiff had requested to be buried in a simple, unadorned
The pontiff and the president had little in common. One spurned the traditional red shoes and luxurious apostolic palace for religious simplicity, living humbly in a Vatican City guesthouse. The
AFP Services have been held in Costa Rica and elsewhere around the world to mark the Pope’s death From the Vatican to the Philippines, Catholics are spending their Easter Monday
The death of a pope starts a centuries-old ritual involving sacred oaths by the cardinals electing a successor, the piercing of ballots with a needle and thread after they’re counted,






