The selection of the next pope will influence doctrinal directions and address internal conflicts. The contest pits more progressive reformists against more traditionalist voices. The stakes are ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Catholic cardinals on Monday set May 7 as the start date for the conclave to elect Pope Francis’ successor, delaying the secret voting for two days so they can get to know ...

Melania Trump wore a black veil adhering to the Catholic dress code at Pope Francis' funeral Unlike President Donald Trump who ditched black and wore a blue suit to Pope Francis' funeral ...

Pope Francis, the 266th leader of the Roman Catholic Church, has been laid to rest. His death marks the end of a 12-year tenure as head of the papacy and the beginning of a search for the next ...

Shortly after Pope Francis died, on Monday, the Vatican released a brief document he had authored in 2022, outlining his last testament: how and where he should be buried, how the proceedings ...

Genevieve broke protocol, standing for minutes as she wiped away tears the late Pope's coffin from the chapel of Santa Marta to St Peter's Basilica, in the Vatican on April 23, 2025. AFP Images of ...

About 250,000 people attended the funeral service for Pope Francis on Saturday morning in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, before the late leader of the Catholic Church was transported to the ...

The funeral of Pope Francis — the world’s first Argentinean pontiff — was held in Rome early Saturday as Catholics around the globe gathered to pay their respects. Francis died Monday at the ...

Pope Francis’ emphasis on reaching out to the "peripheries" of the Catholic Church and world will result in the most diverse collection of church leaders in history gathering to select the new ...

They have tweeted as @pontifex, and waved from their Popemobile. When it comes to choosing a new pope, it’s not always the likeliest candidate that emerges. In 1978, the Archbishop of Krakow ...

The coffin of Pope Francis has been closed and sealed in a private ceremony in St Peter's Basilica which was attended by Vatican officials and some members of the late Pope's family. It followed ...

As world leaders gather in the Vatican today for the funeral mass of Pope Francis, among the will be just one member of Pope Francis's family, his nephew Mauro Bergoglio. Here, a guide to the late ...