Pope Francis will be buried outside of the Vatican, the first in more than a century. Instead of being buried beneath the basilica, he will be buried at the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome.

April 21 (UPI) -- Pope Francis died Monday morning of a stroke and heart failure, less than a day after greeting a huge Easter Sunday gathering of Catholics in St. Peter's Square and issuing a plea ...

Topline Pope Francis has died, the Vatican announced on Monday—after months of health ailments, including a bout of severe pneumonia—ending a more than decade-long reign where he pushed to ...

Beforehand, he met U.S. Vice President JD Vance. Francis performed the blessing from the same loggia where he was introduced on March 13, 2013, as the 266th pope.

Pope Francis was well enough to meet with the Vatican secretary of state to approve new decrees for possible saints and make some major governing decisions that suggest he is getting essential ...

Consolmagno, who has a prodigious white beard, wavy gray bangs, and dark, beetling eyebrows, is one of fifteen scientists who ...

Pope Francis enjoyed a restful night early Monday as he continued recovering from a recent health scare linked to pneumonia, the Vatican confirmed. The 88-year-old pontiff remains stable, is no ...

"Essential for everyone to reverse the order of things." Pope Leo XIV addresses youth with heartfelt message amid growing global crisis: 'Never stop believing in a better world' first appeared on The ...

Pope Francis arrives for the weekly general audience at Paul-VI hall in The Vatican on February 5, 2025. (Photo by Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP) (Photo by ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images)© ALBERTO ...

VATICAN CITY >> Pope Francis returned to the Vatican on Sunday after surviving a five-week battle in hospital against double pneumonia that became the most serious health crisis of his 12-year papacy.

Participants from the US and Africa urged scientific and economic thinkers on climate to consider spiritual concepts raised ...

Today, almost three months since the election of Pope Leo XIV, the media reality defies those expectations. Apart from ...