Pope Francis, the pontiff whose acts of love and humility rippled through his papacy, was laid to rest in a service he deliberately simplified.

Emotional tributes to the popular Pope Francis came amid a diplomatic scramble to meet with the U.S. president.

The pope’s unadorned tomb, marked by a single Latin word — Franciscus — was intended, a cleric said, to reflect a life of ...

In the final stage of his earthly journey, Pope Francis Saturday was entombed in the papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major as a ...

On the morning of the Resurrection, Mary Magdalene and other women were the first to arrive at the tomb and the first to witness the risen Christ (see John 20:11-18 and Matthew 28:1-10 ).

According to the traditional rites, and unless a pope has chosen otherwise, his remains are to be moved after the funeral ...

Pope Francis is not the only Pope to be buried in the Basilica of Saint Mary Major. But he would be the first Pope in 350 ...

World leaders, cardinals and at least 200,000 of the faithful are expected to gather in the Vatican on Saturday morning to ...

The funeral of Pope Francis today is expected to be simpler than those of other popes before him, going by the instructions ...

Each year on Aug. 5 the church liturgical calendar commemorates the dedication of St. Mary Major (in Italian, Santa Maria Maggiore), one of the five great ancient basilicas in Rome, and the place Pope ...

ROME — Pope Francis will be the first pontiff in more than a century to be buried outside the Vatican Grottoes. After his ...

After Prophet Isa Al-Masihu was raised to the sky, his nation lived following his guidance, teaching, and methodology for two ...