The death of Pope Francis sets into motion a series of rituals, some of which go back more than 2,000 years, including how to ...

The Vatican was making final preparations for Pope Francis's funeral as the last of the huge crowds of mourners gather to ...

There are time-honoured rituals, some shrouded in secrecy, and a series of carefully planned events that are likely to take ...

As the world bids a final farewell to Pope Francis during his funeral Saturday, among those present will be the poor, ...

The method the Catholic Church uses to select their leader has remained virtually unchanged for the last 800 years ...

Some of the top candidates, ranked by Italian Vatican watcher Gaetano Masciullo and Vaticanists Edward Pentin and Diane ...

With the death of Pope Francis on Monday, the Catholic Church ... in the Vatican grottoes but instead at the Basilica of St. Mary Major, a basilica that he visited more than 100 times during ...

THE Vatican has released pictures showing Pope Francis in an open coffin during the rite of confirmation of the pontiff’s ...

The death of a pope triggers a centuries-old ritual to elect a new one. It involves sacred oaths, the piercing of ballots ...