VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is being laid to rest Saturday in a ceremony reflecting his priorities as pope and wishes as ...

The Vatican is attracting visitors from all over the world for Pope Francis's funeral but there is one surprising rule every ...

Outside St. Peter’s Basilica, thousands of people lined up for hours, some waiting in the cold twilight of Thursday morning ...

The White House and Vatican have had a relationship stretching back to at least 1919, and includes Pope John Paul II and ...

The Vatican is grieving the first head of the Catholic Church from the Americas and Saturday marks the beginning of the ...

A conclave to choose a new pope normally takes place 15 to 20 days after the death of a pontiff, meaning this conclave should ...

The Vatican, headquarters of the Catholic Church, is the smallest state in the world, with its own newspaper, national anthem ...

In 1929, the Vatican City State was created with the signing of the Lateran Accords between Pope Pius XI and Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, in which Italy recognised papal sovereignty over the ...

Queen Mary is set to attend Pope Francis’s funeral mass in Vatican City.On Wednesday, April 23, the Royal Family of Denmark ...

Pope Francis signaled a very different tone for the papacy, stressing humility over hubris for a Catholic Church beset by ...

Pope Francis’ funeral Mass has ended, and cardinals have filed back into St. Peter’s Basilica. The crowd applauded as ...

VATICAN CITY — As pilgrims and world leaders alike ... that is particularly complex,” said Fabio Ciciliano, the head of Italy’s civil protection service. Francis’s funeral is likely ...