The coffin of Pope Francis is carried into St. Peter's Square at the start of his funeral on Saturday. (Bernadette Tuazon/CNN) Saying farewell to Pope Francis. Published April 26, 2025.

He articulated the mission just days after his 2013 election and it explained the name he chose as pope, honoring St. Francis of Assisi “who had the heart of the poor of the world,” according ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — World leaders and rank-and-file Catholic faithful bade farewell to Pope Francis in a funeral Saturday that highlighted his concern for people on the peripheries and reflected ...

The funeral of Pope Francis took place Saturday in St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City, drawing around 200,000 people who bid farewell, according to the Vatican.

Francis is remembered as a ‘pope among the people' as he is laid to rest Though presidents and princes attended the Mass in St. Peter’s Square, prisoners and migrants welcomed Francis' coffin ...

VATICAN CITY — World leaders and Catholic faithful bade farewell to Pope Francis in a funeral Saturday that highlighted his concern for people on the “most peripheral of the peripheries” and ...

Francis’ body — dressed in papal vestments, with a white bishop’s miter on his head — will lie in state at St. Peter’s Basilica for several days to allow the faithful to bid farewell. On ...

VATICAN CITY, — World leaders and rank-and-file Catholic faithful bade farewell to Pope Francis in a funeral Saturday that highlighted his concern for people on the peripheries and reflected his ...

Long Islanders Vincent LeVien and his family were among thousands of devout Catholics traveling to St. Peter’s Square in Rome to celebrate the canonization of a 15-year-old prodigy this week but ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — World leaders and Catholic faithful bade farewell to Pope Francis in a funeral Saturday that highlighted his concern for people on the “most peripheral of the peripheries ...