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

Pope Francis, who passed away at 88 years old on April 21, 2025, leaves behind a legacy marked by compassion, humility, and a ...

Pope Francis will be buried Saturday after he died on the Monday after Easter. He was 88 years old.Upon his death, the ...

Pope Francis’ face was forever hidden from the world when his coffin was closed at 8 o’clock on Friday evening, April 25, ...

Pope Francis, the second-oldest pope in modern history, has died at age 88, leaving behind a legacy of change in the Catholic Church.

At 7pm local time (6pm BST) public access to the queue to visit Francis’s coffin officially closed after it was visited by ...

ROME — "The Virgin Mary told me, 'Prepare the tomb.' " That is what Pope Francis said Mary told him when he was discerning whether to be buried in the ...

Saint Peter is historically known as the longest-serving pope. Pius IX, John Paul II, and Leo XIII also had long reigns. The article highlights the ten longest-serving popes. It details their ...

Pope Francis, at 88, was the second-oldest pontiff in modern history after Pope Leo XIII, who died in 1903 at the age of 93. Born in Buenos Aires on Dec. 17, 1936, Jorge Mario Bergoglio was ...

The last time a pope was buried outside the Vatican was in 1924. Pope Leo XIII died in 1903 and was initially buried in the Vatican in 1903; his remains were later moved to the Archbasilica of ...

Pope Leo XIII is seen in a photograph reportedly taken in 1878. (Getty Images) You wouldn’t have to go back further than the 20th century, however, to find the oldest pope to ever serve.