The first minister will be at the ceremony on Friday along with heads of state and governments from around the world.

Michiganders, including a group of students and their teachers from Metro Detroit, joined tens of thousands of people from ...

A Tesla senior executive has cancelled her attendance at a conference in Rome over fears of protests surrounding the carmaker ...

Rome is always teeming, and Easter usually kicks off the long tourist season. Up to 250,000 are expected to attend the Pope's ...

Between now and then, there is space for reflection as tens of thousands of people make their way to the basilica in hope of ...

The faithful will be flocking to Rome to honor the death of Pope Francis, with his funeral scheduled for Saturday April 26.

Maria Pia Caruso travelled to Rome from her hometown in northern Italy after she learned Pope Francis had died at age 88, to ...

Pope Francis stipulated that he be laid to rest at the Papal Basilica of St. Mary Major, where seven other popes are buried.

With St. Peter’s, St. John Lateran, St. Paul Outside the Walls, it is one of four basilicas in Rome granted special status by ...

Photographer Federica Valabrega walked the streets of Rome and Vatican City, taking the pulse of people’s reactions to the ...

The death of Pope Francis has impacted travel plans for many members of the religious community who were scheduled to visit ...

The first pope from the Americas was born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Dec. 17, 1936. He was chosen ...