The Catholic Church has begun the highly choreographed process of choosing its new leader following the death of Pope Francis ...

The cardinal leading the last mass before a conclave to elect a new pope urged his peers Wednesday to choose someone able to ...

Mobile phone signals across the Vatican will be deactivated from 3 p.m. on Wednesday, May 7, as 133 Catholic cardinals enter the Sistine Chapel to begin the secretive conclave to elect a new pontiff ...

The pontiff died of a cerebral stroke that put him in a coma and led to irreversible heart failure at 7:35 a.m. local time at his residence, the Casa Santa Marta. The news hit the U.S. East Coast ...

Global tributes are being paid after Pope Francis died of a stroke and heart failure on Easter Monday at Casa Santa Marta, a guesthouse at the Vatican.

HOLY SEE—Pope Francis’ funeral will be held on Saturday, the Vatican announced yesterday, as world leaders from US President ...

He grew up in a working-class neighborhood in Dublin, and now Kevin Farrell is set to preside over the election of the new ...

President Donald Trump on Monday directed all federal and state flags to fly at half-staff in commemoration of Pope Francis.

CNN’s Vatican correspondent Christopher Lamb described his “very moving” experience of seeing Pope Francis lying in state at the Vatican’s Casa Santa Marta residence, where he lived during ...

“After a week, he called me to (his home at the Vatican) Santa Marta and he said ‘Prepare ... Boston Mayor Wu’s office trip to DC hearing cost taxpayers $10k, records show ...