The cardinals were invited to visit the pope's tomb and pray vespers, which was presided over by Cardinal Rolandas Makrickas, coadjutor archpriest of the basilica.

In closed-door sessions called congregations, cardinals have given 70 speeches to their brethren. The conclave is likely to ...

In the span of about 12 hours, the St. Peter's Square went from bursting at the seams with nearly 250,000 people crammed in ...

We grieve not just the passing of a pope, but the loss of a holy witness who taught us that to see sacramentally is not to ...

U.S. President Donald Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy briefly just prior to the funeral of Pope ...

A simplified papal funeral will make a fitting farewell for a pontiff who just three days after his surprise election ...

Hundreds of thousands of mourners — monarchs and presidents, cardinals and sisters, Jubilee pilgrims and tourists — turned ...