VATICAN CITY (AP) — So many mourners lined up to see Pope Francis lying in state in a simple wooden coffin inside St. Peter’s ...

Thousands flooded through the walls of Vatican City as a procession of cardinals and pallbearers took the body of the late ...

Pope Francis is lying in state in St Peter's Basilica, where tens of thousands of mourners will file past his open casket ...

The death of a pope triggers a centuries-old ritual to elect a new one, involving sacred oaths, the piercing of ballots with ...

As the pallbearers approached with Francis atop their shoulders, the faithful in rows behind, Morenatti used an extendable ...

Pope Francis reshaped the papal electorate during his tenure. He appointed nearly 80% of the cardinals eligible to vote ...

Pope Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church, died on Easter Monday aged 88. The Vatican said ...

The death of Pope Francis sets into motion a series of rituals, some of which go back more than 2,000 years, including how to choose the new pope. Here's what happens next.

Only cardinals who did not turn 80 before the death of Francis on April 21, 2025 are eligible to vote, making the current ...

Potential successors to Pope Francis are Ghana’s Peter Turkson, Luis Tagle of the Philippines and Hungary’s Peter Erdo.

Francis' death set off the process of allowing the faithful to pay their final respects, first for Vatican officials in the Santa Marta chapel and then in St. Peter’s for the general public.

The Vatican has released pictures of Pope Francis in his open casket ahead of his funeral this weekend. The casket has been laid out in state inside the late pontiff’s private chapel and will be taken ...