The Vatican, headquarters of the Catholic Church, is the smallest state in the world, with its own newspaper, national anthem ...

Crowds of mourners waited in line on Sunday for a chance to visit Pope Francis’ final resting place in the Santa Maria ...

As the Church prepares for a conclave to elect a new pope, tens of thousands of young pilgrims who traveled to Rome for the ...

With Pope Francis laid to rest, all eyes turn now to the conclave, the secretive meeting of cardinals set to convene within days to elect a new head of the Catholic Church. Mourners were permitted to ...

Pope Francis’s tomb seen for first time in images released by Vatican - The pontiff was laid to rest at the Papal Basilica of ...

Pope Francis was honored with a funeral Mass Saturday morning in the Vatican City's St. Peter's Square. These are some of the ...

Pope Francis' possible successor, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, held special Mass in St. Peter's Square. Francis' tomb opened to visitors at St. Mary Major Basilica.

Fox News contributor and theologian Jonathan Morris reports from Rome, Italy, following the funeral at the Vatican where ...

Pictures of Pope Francis's tomb released as it opens to the public in Rome basilica - Followers of the Catholic church are ...

Approximately 250,000 people followed the mass from the square or nearby on giant screens. The rest lined the route of the ...

He spent the rest of his pontificate going back out to those peripheries, traveling to more than 65 nations, preferring those that were poor, scarred by war, marginalized and forgotten. Then the ...