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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

The son of Italian immigrants in Argentina, Pope Francis sometimes invoked his own family history when speaking about ...