Over three days this week, more than 250,000 people stood for hours in line to pay their final respects while Francis’ body lay in state in St. Peter’s Basilica.

The world watched the funeral of Pope Francis, and Msgr. Richard Hilgartner from the Archdiocese of Baltimore explains the significance of the service.

The choice of the basilica was also symbolically significant given its ties to Francis’ Jesuit religious order. St. Ignatius Loyola, who founded the Jesuits, celebrated his first Mass in the basilica ...

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Francis strove for "a Church determined to take care of the problems of people and the great anxieties that tear the ...

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange joined the crowds on Saturday in Rome for Pope Francis’s funeral, according to AFP ...

Filipino faithful prayed the rosary inside a Manila church on Saturday as the funeral of Pope Francis played overhead on ...