In a video verified by Reuters, the 88-year-old pontiff is seen in a wheelchair, wearing the traditional white papal dress and carrying a bouquet of white roses. Reuters was able to confirm the ...

Pope Francis announced in a recent interview that he plans to be buried outside the Vatican. The pontiff told Mexican broadcaster Televisa's N+ news service that he has made arrangements to be buried ...

Pope Francis said this week that a “place is already prepared” for him to be buried at the Basilica of St. Mary Major, and not — as has been the custom of popes for over a century — at the Vatican.

The Mass will be presided over by Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, dean of the College of Cardinals. The body of Pope Francis lies in state at the Vatican's Domus Sanctae Marthae chapel, surrounded by ...

Saint Mary's Basilica in Phoenix is joining Catholic churches around the world in mourning Pope Francis, who died of a stroke and subsequent heart failure on April 20. His death at age 88 followed a ...

The tomb of Pope Francis opened for visitors at St. Mary Major Basilica in Rome on Sunday, a day after world leaders and a crowd of hundreds of thousands attended the funeral of the late leader of the ...