Pope Francis had expressed the desire to be buried in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, a fifth-century church in Rome dedicated to the Virgin Mary.

Pope Francis, the pontiff whose acts of love and humility rippled through his papacy, was laid to rest in a service he ...

In Eastern Europe, where some RC leaders criticised the Pope’s openness to LGBT and other groups, the Polish bishops’ ...

“Pope Francis was called to priesthood through his experience of the mercy and compassion of God. This remained the core of ...

He will go down in history as the 'pope for the marginalized,' a Catholic leader in Naples, said of Pope Francis ...

With the death of Pope Francis, attention now turns to the selection of his successor. The next pope will be chosen in what is called a “conclave,” a Latin word meaning “a room that can be locked up,” ...

After Pope Francis' funeral, the Catholic Church shifts focus to the conclave, where cardinals will elect the next pope. This ...

The others are St. Peter’s, St. John ... prayer related to each Mystery," the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops website says. The recitation begins by making the signs of the cross and is ...

He says: “For I know that through your prayers ... with Christ.” John Paul II notes that “Christ also becomes in a particular way united to the man, Paul, through the cross” (SD, 20).

Pope Francis died at 7:35 a.m. (Rome time) on Easter Monday, 21 April 2025 at the age of 88 at his residence in the Vatican’s Casa Santa Marta. This was announced from Casa Santa Marta at 9:45 a.m. by ...

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Francis' funeral comes six days after the pope died of a stroke and heart failure at age 88, and after tens of thousands of people paid their respects as he lay in state at St. Peter's Basilica.