As Cardinal Robert Prevost's name was announced, a sound of shock rose up. It was something few people had anticipated — the ...

carried towards the main entrance of the basilica in the Vatican City. Masses of the Catholic faithful are gathered at St Peter’s Square, which leads up to the basilica, to pay their respects to ...

St Peter’s Basilica, which is set to welcome members of the public from 11am, will allow mourners to pay their respects for three days before the funeral on Saturday. The reveal of the coffin has ...

Cardinals have entered St. Peter’s Basilica on Wednesday to celebrate a final Mass before the conclave to elect the next pope ...

The bells of St. Peter's tolled as Francis' coffin was escorted ... Others wept, wiping away tears as they neared the entrance to the basilica. Hymns occasionally broke out, hushed voices carried ...

Pope Francis' coffin began its procession to Saint Peter's Basilica on Wednesday ... and slowly made its way towards the front entrance of the basilica, two days after the Argentine pontiff ...

the retired archpriest of St. Peter's Basilica. But after the Mass ended, Francis appeared on the loggia balcony over the basilica entrance for more than 20 minutes. The thousands of people below ...

(AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) Vatican Swiss Guards frame the entrance of St. Peter's Basilica where the body of Pope Francis will lie in state for three days, at the Vatican, Wednesday, April 23 ...

the retired archpriest of St. Peter’s Basilica. But after the Mass ended, Francis appeared on the loggia balcony over the basilica entrance. The thousands of people below erupted in cheers as a ...

On his way back to St. Peter's Basilica from where he had emerged ... an ornately braided palm that recalls Jesus' triumphant entrance into Jerusalem, when crowds waved palm branches to honor ...