Pope Francis will be buried outside of the Vatican, the first in more than a century. Instead of being buried beneath the basilica, he will be buried at the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome.

The coffin of Pope Francis is carried out of St Peter’s Basilica during his funeral, in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Saturday, April 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)“He was a pope among the ...

FILE – Pope Francis leaves at the end of his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday May 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File) ...

Almost three months since Pope Leo’s election, he has appeared about as rarely in the news as a new pope can. Pope Leo smiles ...

VATICAN CITY — World leaders and Catholic faithful bade farewell to Pope Francis in a funeral Saturday that highlighted his concern for people on the “most peripheral of the peripheries” and ...

Topline Pope Francis has died, the Vatican announced on Monday—after months of health ailments, including a bout of severe pneumonia—ending a more than decade-long reign where he pushed to ...

Pope Francis, 88, died Monday morning at the Vatican. The pope's last public appearance was on Easter Sunday at St. Peter's Square. Vice President JD Vance had just met with the pope on Sunday.

Pope Leo XIV received a "rock star's welcome" at the Vatican's festival for Catholic influencers on Tuesday. At the event, ...

April 21 (UPI) -- Pope Francis died Monday morning of a stroke and heart failure, less than a day after greeting a huge Easter Sunday gathering of Catholics in St. Peter's Square and issuing a plea ...

Pope Francis Is Doing Well After Abdominal Surgery, Vatican Says The 86-year old pontiff had a “day of rest” after hernia surgery, and was able to take communion in his room, the Vatican said.

Pope Francis will be discharged from the hospital on Friday, according to the Vatican, nine days after the 86-year-old pontiff underwent abdominal surgery for a hernia, an unexpected operation ...

ROME — Pope Francis was in critical but stable condition Tuesday as he worked from the hospital while battling double pneumonia, and the Vatican announced some major governing decisions that ...