More than 200,000 people are expected to attend Pope Francis's funeral in St Peter's Square. He will then be buried in Rome's ...

Pope Francis, who died April 21 at age 88, "will long be remembered for his outreach to those on the margins of the Church ...

With a long-lost and recently discovered painting by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, ‘Mary Magdalen in Ecstasy’, on ...

President Michael D Higgins, Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Tánaiste Simon Harris will all attend Pope Francis’s funeral on ...

The pontiff was well for at least an hour after he woke up on Monday, Vatican sources say, but died around half an hour after ...

Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín, who welcomed the decision to fly flags at half-mast over public buildings, said there should be ...

In his final testament, Pope Francis said he wanted to be laid to rest at the Papal Basilica of St Mary Major in a 'simple' ...

World leaders are paying tribute with the Taoiseach saying Francis’s papacy was marked by a commitment to ‘compassion, peace, ...

The first Latin American leader of the Catholic Church passed away at his residence in the Vatican's Casa Santa Marta ...