VATICAN CITY — The sealing of the coffin officially ended three days of public viewing of Pope Francis in Rome. The Vatican says about 250,000 people filed through St. Peter’s Basilica, and hundreds ...

President Trump and first lady Melania Trump will be attending Pope Francis’ funeral on April 26. Not so long ago, that was a shocking idea. U.S. President George W. Bush (L), U.S. first lady Laura ...

There were plenty of tears shed on April 8, 2005, the day Pope St. John Paul II was laid to rest. Though I was only seven, I vividly remember my mother crying as we watched the funeral. We weren’t ...

In April 8, 2005, something happened in Rome that hadn’t happened for over 1,400 years: the congregation at a papal funeral Mass spontaneously proclaimed the deceased Pontiff a saint. The honoree was ...