A change in popes is a complicated process. These are the need-to-know terms — some of them in Latin — to help make sense of ...

More than 250,000 people paid their respects to the pontiff at his funeral in front of St. Peter’s Basilica, the Vatican said ...

St. John died in a building behind the St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral on Capitol Hill. The room where he died is a ...

Pope Francis died on Easter Monday at the age of 88. His death set off mourning across the Catholic world and days of ritual ...

Francis stopped by the basilica on his way home from the Gemelli hospital on March 23, after his 38-day hospital stay, to ...

A change in popes — through death or resignation — is a complicated process. These are the need-to-know terms — some of them ...

Francis' death set off the process of allowing the faithful to pay their final respects, first for Vatican officials in the ...