Some 150,000 people have passed by Francis’s coffin over the past three days as he lay in state in St Peter’s Basilica.

The Vatican conclave will continue on Thursday with more voting. A two-thirds majority of the 133 cardinals is required to select a new leader for the world’s 1.4 billion Roman Catholics.

Romanian officials have joined other world voices in expressing deep sorrow following the death of His Holiness Pope Francis, who passed away at his residence in the Vatican's Casa Santa Marta on ...

From his new name to the title he uses to introduce himself, a pope’s first appearance involves symbolic choices that signal ...

Pope Francis has been buried in Rome after a funeral ceremony and procession attended by hundreds of thousands of people ...

A video from 2022 showed Pope Francis greeting and joking with a crowd of people in St. Peter's ... are destroyed in the presence of other cardinals as a symbol that his reign has ended and ...

The future of the church will be up to the 135 voting members of the College of Cardinals ... I feel like people were more connecting," said Maria Guadalupe. A powerful symbol of Mexican identity ...

Pope Francis was reportedly in a poor state of health before his passing on Monday, April 21, 2025, at the Vatican City.

The circuitous procession traversed the Tiber River and symbols ... of people, observers, said that the last moral authority worldwide has remained the papacy, Pope Francis.” Lithuanian Cardinal ...

He has been working at PEOPLE ... her "a symbol of wisdom, faith, and unconditional love for others." "Her legacy will live on in the history of the Santa Teresa Schools, where she passed through ...