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The choice of the basilica was also symbolically significant given its ties to Francis’ Jesuit religious order. St. Ignatius ...
US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met on Saturday before the funeral service for Pope ...
CNN Vatican analyst Father Edward Beck reflects on the funeral Mass for Pope Francis, telling CNN’s Fredricka Whitfield what ...
The vatican says 250,000 people were in attendance and packed into Saint Peter's square to say their last farewell to Pope ...
Hundreds of thousands of mourners — monarchs and presidents, cardinals and sisters, Jubilee pilgrims and tourists — turned ...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — From some of the world’s most powerful leaders to those on society’s margins whom Pope Francis always ...
Pope Francis, the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, will be mourned and buried at the Basilica of Saint Mary Major ...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Thousands of young people from around the world had come to Rome expecting to rejoice this weekend in the ...
It is rare for a pope to be buried outside the Vatican, and Francis is the first to do so since Pope Leo XIII in 1903.
Typically, popes are laid to rest beneath St. Peter's Basilica. On Saturday, Francis became the first Catholic leader in over ...
The celebrant was Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State throughout the Francis papacy. He described the pope to the young people as “a shining witness of a Church that bends down with ...
As hundreds of thousands of Catholics descend upon the Vatican to celebrate the life of Pope Francis, local military and police are armed with huge guns ...