The last numbers released by the Vatican said more than 50,000 people had paid their last respects in the first 12 hours of ...

About 25,000 people have visited St. Peter’s Square since Wednesday morning to pay homage to Pope Francis, the Italian Police told ABC News. Officials said they expect the number to increase, with a ...

The last numbers released by the Vatican said more than 50,000 people had paid their last respects in the first 12 hours of ...

Vatican authorities kept St. Peter's Basilica open all night as an estimated 50,000 people lined around St. Peter's Square ...

Although Pope Francis simplified the papal funeral rites in a move of typical modesty, Saturday’s ceremony will still be full of pomp and pageantry, as the world’s Catholics bid him farewell and ...

Losing Francis was “as if you’re losing your grandfather, your very wise grandfather,” one mourner told NBC News.

The papal funeral is scheduled for the early hours of April 26. It will be a more modest event than others, for a modest man.

St. Peter's Basilica closed its doors just briefly in the early hours and then opened again to welcome crowds of worshippers ...

Pope Francis was thankful that he was able to greet throngs of people in St. Peter’s Square on Easter, a day before he died, though he ...

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