We were all shocked when Pope Francis died the day after Easter. We had just seen him the day before, giving the Urbi et Orbi Blessing from the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica and then moving through ...

Pope Francis was remembered as a pope of the people, a pastor who knew how to communicate to the "least among us," during the homily at his funeral on Saturday. Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, the ...

Italian cardinal Giovanni Battista Re blesses the coffin of late Pope Francis, during the funeral ceremony at St Peter’s Square at the Vatican on April 26, 2025.

Pope Francis celebrates Holy Mass privately on the altar of St. Ignatius of Loyola in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, Dec. 8, 2020.

Editor ’ s Note: On April 26, 2025, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, primary celebrant of Pope Francis’ funeral, offered the following homily as published by the Vatican.

Fox News will provide live coverage from Rome of Pope Francis' funeral, beginning at 3 a.m. ET. President Trump, Prince William, and more world leaders are expected to attend.

Like St. Peter’s, the basilica has a Holy Door for pilgrims to walk through. Francis had disclosed his desire to be buried in the basilica in a 2023 interview with a Mexican TV program.

In 2020, Pope Francis met with a group of seminarians from St. Paul during an “ad limina” visit to the Vatican, Hebda said, referring to the periodic visits that bishops make to report on the ...

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 choose the new pope. Here's what happens next.

Pope Francis died of a cerebral stroke and irreversible heart failure, Vatican doctor Andrea Arcangeli says in a death certificate. The certificate released on Monday for the 88-year-old pontiff ...