The last numbers released by the Vatican said more than 50,000 people had paid their last respects in the first 12 hours of ...

Rome's Gammarelli tailors traditionally prepare the vestments for the new pope -- but say this time the Vatican will use ...

Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, who became the first cardinal to ever be prosecuted by the Vatican’s criminal court in ...

Alongside the gossip and the gallows humor, the ancient and solemn rituals continue,” Chiara Barzini writes from Italy.

Set in the aftermath of a Pope's death, Conclave follows the cardinal tasked to oversee the selection of a new leader of the Catholic Church.

Conclave to select new Pope to include Vatican lock-in, days of speeches and puffs of smoke - The method the Catholic Church ...

Timeline: How Pope Francis’ funeral and the Conclave to select his successor will work - The late pope will break from ...

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 ...

The papal funeral is scheduled for the early hours of April 26. It will be a more modest event than others, for a modest man.

Pope Francis was thankful that he was able to greet throngs of people in St. Peter’s Square on Easter, a day before he died, though he ...

Francis did away with that sort of viewing. Instead, a procession brought his coffin on Wednesday directly to St. Peter’s ...

The Vatican has released details of Pope Francis' funeral. See when and where the services are and how to watch live from ...