As more than a billion Catholics around the world await the election of a new pope, all eyes will be on the Sistine Chapel, ...

A white rose is placed on the tomb of Pope Francis inside St. Mary Major Basilica in Rome, Monday, April 28, 2025. (AP ...

Nuns watch the funeral of Pope Francis from a window overlooking St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Saturday, April 26, 2025.

On Sunday, the Vatican released images showing the tomb of Pope Francis at the Basilica of Saint Mary Major, also known as ...

LONDON and ROME -- The Vatican released photos of the tomb of Pope Francis, who was buried on Saturday in the Basilica of St.

(CNN) — When Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected to lead the Catholic church in 2013, he chose the papal name Francis, after the 13th-century figure St. Francis of Assisi, known as the patron ...

Every day, he used to say, he prayed the words of St. Thomas More: “Lord, give me a sense of humor.” Francis took what ... as “productive.” Another image shows the leaders accompanied ...

(Marco Bertorello/AFP/Getty Images) 0 min Pope Francis has been buried at the Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica in Rome, after his funeral Mass drew an estimated 250,000 people to St. Peter’s Basili ...

1 of 28 The coffin of Pope Francis arrives at St. Mary Major Basilica for his burial ceremony, in Rome, Saturday, April 26, 2025. As the funeral of Pope Francis began, a choir was heard singing an ...

1 of 28 The coffin of Pope Francis arrives at St. Mary Major Basilica for his burial ceremony, in Rome, Saturday, April 26, 2025. As the funeral of Pope Francis began, a choir was heard singing an ...

Vatican City (CNN) — The bells of St. Peter’s Basilica tolled to mark the end of the funeral of Pope Francis in Vatican City, where tens of thousands of mourners gathered to give a final send ...