The funeral for Pope Francis will take place Saturday, April 26, and will be attended by leaders from around the world, ...

Dr. Sergio Alfieri coordinated Francis’ five-week hospital treatment for double pneumonia and continued to oversee the pope’s ...

Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, April 21, about four weeks after he was released from the hospital following an extended battle with respiratory ailments. While the Vatican did not immediately ...

Editor's Note: This page is a summary of news on Pope ... of Francis as details of his final hours emerged. The congregation of about 60 cardinals is planning Francis' funeral, which will take ...

"All the findings to date are indicative of a complex clinical picture that will require an appropriate hospital stay," the statement read. Pope Francis waves to the crowd from the main balcony of ...

The rite of the closing of the coffin took place at 8 p.m. local time Friday at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, officials said.

VATICAN CITY, April 22 (Reuters) - Pope Francis' funeral will be held on ... The pontiff spent five weeks in hospital earlier this year suffering from double pneumonia. But he returned to the ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis died on Easter Monday at the age of 88. Here are the key things to know about the death of the Argentine pontiff, history’s first from Latin America, who presided over ...

At his funeral, Pope Francis was remembered and venerated as a pontiff with "strength and serenity" who modeled his ...

Traditionally, after a pope dies, the carmelango, who is the pope’s chief of staff, calls out the pontiff’s baptismal name three times. If the pontiff does not respond, a certificate of death is ...

White smoke from the Sistine Chapel on Thursday signaled that the cardinals have selected the next leader of the Catholic Church.