Pope Francis died April 21 after suffering a stroke and heart failure, said the director of Vatican City State’s department ...

In his brief final testament, Pope Francis asked to be buried at Rome’s Basilica of St. Mary Major and said he had offered ...

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, who served as Pope Francis’s secretary of state, stands by the pope’s coffin in the chapel of his ...

Catholics in Washington, D.C., gathered at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception for a memorial ...

As the bells tolled 88 times across the grounds of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on April ...

Pope Francis visited the National Shrine on Sept. 23, 2015 during his apostolic journey to the United States. At the National ...

With the death of Pope Francis, the canonization of Blessed Carlo Acutis, which was scheduled for April 27, has been ...

People gather in St. Peter’s Square to pray the rosary for the repose of the soul of Pope Francis at the Vatican April 21, ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Tapping into the spirit and spirituality of his namesake, St. Francis of Assisi, Pope Francis made care ...

Later in the morning, local Churches started tolling the death knell from their bell towers. The request had come from ...

Even the moment of the formal verification of the pope’s death takes place in the context of a prayer service “at home” in ...

The funeral and burial of a pope who dies in office should take place “between the fourth and sixth day after death,” the document said. The exact date is determined at a meeting of all the cardinals ...