A group of U.S. teens and nonprofit Casita Linda teamed up to build homes for some of Mexico's neediest families.

After the Mass, Francis' coffin was placed on an open-air popemobile and tranported to the burial site outside the Vatican by a motorcade that traversed the streets of Rome, lined by cheering crowds.

"Conclave" the film, a moody 2024 political thriller, introduced many laypeople to the ancient papal selection process.

As long, convoluted and complex as the journey might have been, the destination was never in doubt.