Pope Leo XIV has called for a just and lasting peace in Ukraine and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza with the release of ...

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Papal experts say informal politicking is already underway in the private halls and rooms of the Vatican ahead of formal voting to elect a new pope.

Faithful gather outside St Mary Major Basilica to visit the tomb of Pope Francis, in Rome. Vatican City: Roman Catholic faithful began visiting the tomb of Pope Francis on Sunday, filing past the ...

An image of Pope Francis and information including his year of death and birth is displayed, at the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, in Rome, Italy, April 21, 2025. — REUTERS VATICAN CITY — ...

ROME — Thousands of people filed past the tomb of Pope Francis from early on Sunday morning (April 27), packing the Roman basilica where he had chosen to be buried in a break from tradition.

Though Presidents and princes attended the Mass in St. Peter’s Square, prisoners and migrants welcomed him into the basilica across town where he ... his favourite Rome church after a funeral ...

(CNN) — Crowds of mourners waited in line on Sunday for a chance to visit Pope Francis’ final resting place in the Santa Maria Maggiore church in Rome, a day after his funeral service that was ...

Canadians dotted throughout the crowds at St. Peter’s Square for Pope Francis’s funeral said the somewhat simple ceremony seemed a fitting farewell for the pontiff who saw himself as a pastor ...

Even before he became pope, Francis had a particular affection for St. Mary Major, home to a Byzantine-style icon of the Madonna, the Salus Populi Romani. He would pray before the icon before and ...

The rite of the entombment began at 1 p.m. local time following the pope's funeral at St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City and a 4-mile procession through Rome ... a historic town hall in 2015 ...