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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 ...
The European Court of Human Rights announced Thursday it has determined that French law and practice failed to protect three ...
Mourners from across the globe made a slow, shuffling procession up the main aisle of St. Peter’s Basilica to pay their last ...
What Pope Francis left behind in his last will and testament - Alongside the will, the Vatican announced the pope died ...
About 25,000 people have visited St. Peter’s Square since Wednesday morning to pay homage to Pope Francis, the Italian Police told ABC News. Officials said they expect the number to increase, with a ...
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.
Vatican authorities kept St. Peter's Basilica open all night as an estimated 50,000 people lined around St. Peter's Square ...
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 ...
Photos show powerful moments from the late pope's funeral proceedings. After Pope Francis' death was announced on Easter ...
Losing Francis was “as if you’re losing your grandfather, your very wise grandfather,” one mourner told NBC News.
Pope Francis' funeral will take place at 6 a.m. ET on Saturday, April 26. Here's how to watch the service from home.