By Joshua McElwee, Crispian Balmer and Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Presidents, royalty and simple mourners bade ...

The head of the basilica that is housing Pope Francis's tomb says it reflects his “humble, simple and essential" life.

Pope Francis, the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, will be mourned and buried at the Basilica of Saint Mary Major ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Heads of state and royalty will start converging on Rome on Friday for the funeral of Pope Francis in the ...

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

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 ...

VATICAN CITY -- Key events in the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis and died on Monday: Dec. 17, 1936: ...

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

Dozens of heads of state attended the funeral service for Pope Francis, who died Monday at age 88, at St. Peter’s Square ...

The pope’s unadorned tomb, marked by a single Latin word — Franciscus — was intended, a cleric said, to reflect a life of ...