Public visitation will come to an end Friday, April 25 before a funeral for Pope Francis takes place Saturday in St. Peter's Square.

National period of mourning set until late pontiff’s burial President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and First Lady Liza Araneta-Marcos ...

At a time when nationalism, a concept long held in contempt by Francis, is surging again in the West, the church now finds ...

PRESIDENT Michael D Higgins has laid a wreath during the annual commemoration of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin. It marks ...

Pope Francis has died at age 88. The Vatican said Francis suffered a stroke which led to a coma and his heart to fail, as he ...

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If stones could speak, Ireland’s place names would be their voice—a living memory etched across fields, rivers, and mountains ...

The Vatican said the cause of death was a stroke that put him into a coma and led to heart failure. Francis had chronic lung ...

Pope Francis died Monday at age 88. History’s first Latin American pontiff charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but alienated many conservatives with critiques of ...

They are compiled in a more than 400-page tome called the “Ordo exsequiarum Romani pontificis,” which includes the liturgy, music and prayers used ... or camerlengo, Irish-born Cardinal ...

The current camerlengo is Cardinal Kevin Farrell, an Irish-born American Catholic prelate ... Through a mixture of speeches, prayer, reflection – and intense political jostling – cardinals ...