Pope Francis introduced changes to the papal funeral rites in 2024 which were aimed at simplifying the ceremonies.

POPE Francis, who died on Easter Monday, will be finally laid to rest at the Basilica of Sta. Maria Maggiore in Rome on ...

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

On the night of his election on March 13, 2013, Pope Francis told the assembled faithful from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica that “tomorrow I wish to go and pray to the Madonna.” And so he did, ...

Thousands flooded through the walls of Vatican City as a procession of cardinals and pallbearers took the body of the late ...

Patrick, a retired prison governor originally from Longford, and his wife Alice Gavigan were among some 20,000 people paying ...

A couple who first met at a papal event 40 years ago have described the moment they saw Pope Francis' remains on display in ...

Patrick and Alice Gavigan, from Leixlip, Co Kildare, are on holiday in Rome and said the experience felt surreal.

Cardinals could pick a progressive pope ready to build off the changes Francis brought to the church or a conservative who ...

Francis did away with that sort of viewing. Instead, a procession brought his coffin on Wednesday directly to St. Peter’s ...

The 88-year-old Pope died on Easter Monday following a cerebral stroke that led to a coma and irreversible heart failure.