Gregorio Borgia. Pallbearers bend to lift the coffin of Pope Francis at the end of his funeral in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Saturday, April 26, 2025.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — World dignitaries and Catholic faithful attended Pope Francis’ funeral in St. Peter’s Square on Saturday. Despite the presence of presidents and princes, prisoners and ...

But on Monday, standing somberly behind a microphone at the Vatican, Cardinal Kevin Farrell announced that the pope had died. “At 7:35 this morning, the Bishop of Rome, Francis, returned to the ...

ROME — Pope Francis, the first non-European head of the Roman Catholic Church in more than a millennium, died at age 88. Cardinal Kevin Farrell, a top Vatican official, announced the death of ...

Pope Francis met Friday with a delegation of priests and monks from Oriental Orthodox Churches at the Vatican. “Unity is not simply an end in itself, but is closely tied to the fruitfulness of ...

With those words, Pope Francis changed my life,” wrote John Boehner, former speaker of the U.S. House and a lifelong Catholic, in a tribute on X. Boehner has previously explained that the visit ...

One of Pope Francis’ final encounters before his death was with U.S. Vice President JD Vance, who visited the Vatican over the weekend. The meeting took place on Easter Sunday.

Pope Francis, whose time as head of the Catholic Church was noted for an everyman humility and outreach efforts to people of disparate backgrounds and faiths, has died at 88, the Vatican has ...

I never had the chance to say hello. But I stood in line to say goodbye.. After Pope Francis died, my editors asked me to fly to Italy in advance of a move next month to take up the post of Rome ...