With Pope Francis in his final resting place, the thoughts of the world's 1.3bn Catholics turn to who will be his successor ...

People lined up from the early hours of Sunday for a farewell to Pope Francis at his simple tomb in the Papal Basilica of ...

Roman Catholic faithful have begun visiting the tomb of Pope Francis. Starting early Sunday they began filing past the simple ...

Pope Francis, writes Marxist scholar Michael Löwy, demonstrated an uncharacteristic sympathy toward left-wing thought, even ...

The church is divided. The problem is to find the one who unites, not pretend that it isn’t divided,” one church historian ...

As hundreds of thousands of Catholics descend upon the Vatican to celebrate the life of Pope Francis, local military and police are armed with huge guns ...

Typically, popes are laid to rest beneath St. Peter's Basilica. On Saturday, Francis became the first Catholic leader in over ...

As a result of Francis’ expansion of the diversity of cardinals who will elect his successor, all that is certain about the ...

A single white rose was placed on the tomb that said "Franciscus" – the pope's name in Latin – inside the Santa Maria ...

Cardinal Pietro Parolin told some 200,000 people in St. Peter’s Square that Pope Francis had made the message of God’s limitless mercy the heart of his pontificate.