Cardinal Kevin Farrell, who is running the Vatican administration until Francis' successor is elected, presided over the ceremony in the chapel of the Domus Santa Marta hotel where Francis lived.

The deceased pope's body, which was taken to the chapel of his residence late April 21, the day of his death, will be carried ...

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

Francis first lay in state in the Santa Marta Domus in a private viewing for Vatican ... just placed on the main altar of the 16th-century basilica, simply facing the pews. Italian police have ...

The photos show the pope dressed in red vestments and lying in a simple wooden coffin inside the chapel of the Santa Marta ...

More than 250,000 people paid their last respects to Pope Francis over three days of public viewing by ordinary mourners, ...

The basilica was being kept open until midnight ... Francis first lay in state in the Domus Santa Marta hotel in a private viewing for Vatican residents and the papal household.

Catholic cardinals on Wednesday performed the ritual ceremony to transfer Pope Francis' body from his home in the Vatican ...

The basilica was being kept open until midnight ... Francis first lay in state in the Domus Santa Marta hotel in a private viewing for Vatican residents and the papal household.