The funeral of Pope Francis will be held on Saturday in St Peter’s Square. Until then, his body, kept in an open coffin, will ...

Pope Francis's coffin was placed before St Peter's Altar of the Confession, where Bernini's bronze baldacchino soars up ...

The stairs to the top of St Peter’s Dome were not constructed with tourists in mind. There are 491 steps and in some sections ...

Pope Francis’ funeral ceremony is scheduled for Saturday, 26 April, at St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City. St. Peter’s ...

So many mourners lined up to pay their respects to Pope Francis that the Vatican kept St. Peter's Basilica open all night to ...

The first Saint Peter’s Basilica was built on the orders of Constantine I sometime ... At over 600 feet long and almost 450 ...

Mourners pray at Pope Francis' coffin inside St. Peter's Basilica April 23. Among them, kneeling, are Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, ...

After so many people lined up to see Pope Francis lying in state at St. Peter’s Basilica that the Vatican kept the doors open ...

In the span of about 12 hours, the St. Peter's Square went from bursting at the seams with nearly 250,000 people crammed in ...

Catholic cardinals on Wednesday performed the ritual ceremony to transfer Pope Francis’ body from his home in the Vatican ...

Pope Francis lies in state at St Peter's Basilica which is the centrepiece of the Vatican. Take a look inside the magnificent ...