Leaders and prominent figures from across the world will be in attendance when Pope Francis is buried in a service on April ...

Pope Francis, Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI are among the elected bishops of Rome who have led the Catholic Church ...

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

Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re is heading Pope Francis’ funeral in front of a massive crowd in St Peter’s Square. Re, 91, was appointed the dean of the College of Cardinals in 2020 and given a ...

Cardinal Battista Re was highly respected by Pope Francis, who approved his election as subdean of the College of Cardinals ...

Burgstahler still holds Brainerd’s 800-meter record with a 2:12.94 she ran at the 2013 Class 2A state meet. She anchored ...

As part of Francis’ push to simplify the papal funeral rites, his body is in a single wooden coffin lined with zinc, rather ...

Ten U.S. cardinals are among those who will gather in Rome to elect a successor to Pope Francis, who died Monday.

The message that shone through Francis’s provisions for his departure was that the true place of his church was on the ...

The earthly remains of most of history’s 266 popes (plus some European royals) are buried in Rome—in dozens of catacombs and ...

St. Peter’s Basilica, including the Vatican Grottoes, houses the remains of approximately 90 of Rome’s popes. The rest are scattered throughout other places ...