French-Argentine nun, Sister Genevieve Jeanningros, was seen in footage from the first day of Francis' lying-in-state ...

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.

Then there was one take where I just couldn’t talk afterwards with tears running down my face, and that’s the ... creating the environment, wind and blood and the stunt and movement teams.

In Africa, a person of Pope Francis’ moral caliber and spiritual substance holds the coveted designation of “ancestor,” whose ...

The Vatican said Francis, the first pope from Latin America, had died after a stroke, and revealed that his will requested a simple tomb in Rome.

As the world absorbs the news of the death of Pope Francis -- and before the ever-busy oddsmakers and deep insiders begin the game of papabile speculation that accompanies every papal death and concla ...

Pope Francis, a reformer who rattled the Catholic Church's conservatives and inspired some progressives, has died.

So he sends for water and washes his hands in the sight of the people, saying as he does so: I am innocent of the blood of this ... she reverently wipes the face of Jesus. Our Lord leaves the ...

The history of Francis's papacy is certainly longer than his twelve years. A history further expanded by the last act of an ...

From the loggia of St. Peter's, Francis gave his blessing with a voice weakened by illness. In his Urbi et Orbi message, read ...