Watch live coverage of Pope Francis’ funeral ceremony at the Vatican on NBC News. Pope Francis died on Easter Monday at age ...

Two of the five popes before Francis have become saints, but merely serving as pontiff is no longer a guarantee of ...

Mourners bid farewell to Pope Francis in a funeral that highlighted his concern for the 'most peripheral of the peripheries.' ...

Priests and other celebrants distribute the Holy Communion – the bread and wine, representing the body and blood of Christ – ...

Crowds gather in Vatican City for the funeral of Pope Francis which will be attended by leaders from around the world.

Pope Francis’ coffin is set to be driven through Rome in an open-top hearse to his final resting place at the Basilica of ...

Before the service began presidents Trump and Zelensky had a meeting inside St Peter's Basilica after paying their respects ...

Pope Francis, the pontiff whose acts of love and humility rippled through his papacy, is being laid to rest in a service he ...

The funeral of Pope Francis was attended by several global leaders. The St. Peter's Square was amass with over 200,000 people ...

W ith Pope Francis’s death, the world reckons with the end of an era. The first Jesuit pope, the first from the Americas, and ...

Funeral diplomacy is nothing new. The funeral of a political pope like Francis is a great occasion for informal and discreet exchanges between world leaders under the cover of Vatican walls and ...

The late Pope Francis continued his legacy as an open-armed trailblazer by opening the sacred portal of the Vatican and dying ...