The basilica will be kept open until at least midnight on Thursday to allow the faithful to mourn. Francis' funeral will be ...

After so many people lined up to see Pope Francis lying in state at St. Peter’s Basilica that the Vatican kept the doors open ...

A fter the death of Pope Francis on Easter Monday, April 21st, 2025, his body was moved to St. Peter’s Basilica. Today was ...

Tens of thousands of mourners filed into St. Peter's Basilica on Friday (April 25) to pay their respects to Pope Francis, viewing his open coffin in the final visiting hours ahead of his funeral on ...

Pope Francis’ funeral procession will travel approximately six kilometers from St. Peter’s Basilica to St. Mary Major.

The head of the basilica that is housing Pope Francis's tomb says it reflects his “humble, simple and essential" life.

Francis has broken with recent papal tradition by choosing to be buried in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore instead of St ...

Pope Francis’ coffin is closed and sealed in St. Peter’s Basilica in a private ceremony on Friday evening, April 25, 2025, ...

The last of the huge crowds of mourners shuffled through St. Peter’s Basilica on Friday to pay their final respects to Pope ...

Pope Francis’ funeral ceremony is scheduled for Saturday, 26 April, at St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City. St. Peter’s ...

Tens of thousands of mourners filed into St Peter's Basilica on Friday (April 25) on the last day to pay final respects to ...