When the body of Pope Francis was moved from the simplicity of his home in Casa Santa Marta, the Vatican's guest house, on Wednesday morning to the opulence of St Peter's Basilica, another step was taken in the late pope's final journey.

Here’s who is planning to be in Rome for the funeral of Pope Francis, including President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Keir Starmer and other world leaders.

Pope Francis died Easter Monday. His body is expected to be moved to a coffin the same day and put on public display at St. Peter's Basilica this week.

The papacy of Pope Francis ended with the same core doctrine for LGBTQ+ people that he inherited: The Catholic Church still rejected same-sex marriage and condemned any sexual relations between gay or lesbian partners as “intrinsically disordered.”

Pope Francis was a "real game-changer" when it came to the Catholic Church's treatment of gay people, a London LGBT+ faith group has said. Martin Pendergast, the secretary of the LGBT+ Catholics Westminster Pastoral Council,

Francis advocated for the powerless, for those who have so little and yet are villainized by people in positions of authority.'