The clergy watched on as nuns sang prayers over the wooden coffin decorated with red cloth. In a break from tradition, Francis confirmed in his final testament released on Monday (April 21) that he ...

It was a funeral two years in the making. The deceased had laid in a morgue in Greater Accra, Ghana, biding his time in icy torpor as plans were made for his final journey. There was financing to be ...

The coffin of Pope Francis was sealed in St. Peter's Basilica on Friday evening, ahead of the funeral on Saturday. A changing of the guards at Francis’ open coffin signaled the end of the viewing ...

Pope Francis’ coffin will be sealed in a liturgical rite this evening ahead of his solemn funeral, set to take place the next morning on Saturday, April 26. Cardinal Kevin Farrell, the camerlengo, ...

The body of Pope Francis lies in state at the chapel of Casa Santa Marta Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Images The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis’s funeral will be held on Saturday ...

The ceremony took place Monday evening at a chapel in Casa Santa Marta, where Swiss guards stood watch over the body of the deceased pontiff. Cardinal Kevin Farrell presides over the rite of ...

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 Vatican has announced that Pope Francis's funeral will be held on Saturday (April 26) and released images of the pontiff lying in a simple wooden open casket in the chapel of the Santa Marta ...

Around 200,000 people flocked to St. Peter's Square in Vatican City for the funeral of Pope Francis on Saturday. In the days leading up to the funeral Mass, the Vatican said more than 150,000 filed ...

The wife of late Portuguese soccer star Diogo Jota broke down while carrying his coffin after his funeral mass Saturday at Igreja Matriz church in Gondomar, Portugal, following his tragic death in a ...