Pope Francis died at age 88 on April 21, setting off a series of centuries-old rituals to select a new leader of the Catholic ...

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The conclave is a time-honored process conducted in secrecy behind the locked doors of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel.

VATICAN CITY — As many as 200,000 people are expected to attend Pope Francis’ funeral in St. Peter’s Square as he is being ...

The funeral for Pope Francis will be held Saturday in Rome and is expected to be much simpler than those of previous pontiffs ...

The Holy Father Pope Francis, the first from the Americas, the first from the Southern Hemisphere, and the firstborn or raised outside of Europe since the 8th-century Syrian Pope Gregory III, died on ...

The Vatican has opened St. Peter’s Basilica to the general public to pay their final respects to Pope Francis.

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Formosus was elected as pope on October 6, 891 CE, during a particularly turbulent time for the papacy, and political ...

The first Pope Francis. First Jesuit to sit on the throne of St. Peter. First leader of the Roman Catholic Church from Latin America. So many firsts from Jorge Mario ...

On March 13, 2013, Francis succeeded Pope Benedict XVI, who was the first pope to retire in six centuries. Francis became the ...

Pope Francis, the first pontiff from Latin America, whose warm, humble, no-nonsense manner galvanized the Roman Catholic ...