A Paschal candle that - due to the death of the Pope - has become a funeral candle beside the Holy Father. The candle was ...

As the lights of St. Peter's Basilica were extinguished and silence settled through the sprawling interior, a single flame -- the paschal candle -- pierced through the gloom, rep ...

In changes made by Pope Francis last year, his body was not placed in three wooden coffins, as it had been for previous popes ...

The night before the funeral, the camerlengo will preside over the closing and sealing of the coffin in the presence of other ...

Cardinals have made their first decisions following the death of Pope Francis, setting Saturday as the date for his funeral.

Cardinal Kevin Farrell, the camerlengo, presided over the rite in the chapel of Pope Francis’ Vatican residence, the Casa ...

According to the Vatican, the rite took under one hour ... in a simple wooden coffin with a zinc lining. The paschal, or Easter, candle was placed nearby and lit for the next part of the rite ...

The paschal, or Easter, candle is placed nearby and lit for the ... the pope’s remains is placed in a suitable place within the Vatican for visitation and prayer until it is moved for public ...

The photos showed him in a wooden casket, in red vestments and his bishop’s miter, with the Vatican secretary ... with the Paschal candle nearby. “He was a pope who didn’t change his path ...