Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín, who welcomed the decision to fly flags at half-mast over public buildings, said there should be ...

Bishop Larry Sullivan delivered the sermon at a special commemoration for Pope Francis, hours after the pope was laid to rest ...

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

The funeral for Pope Francis was intended to be a stripped-down affair to honor the simplicity of the man. Instead, the ...

An Irish-born American cardinal was entrusted by Pope Francis to be the camerlengo, the Vatican official who runs the Holy ...

The funeral of Pope Francis, who died on Easter Monday at the age of 88, will take place on Saturday morning, the Holy See ...

Pope Francis' funeral will be held at 10 a.m. local time in Rome, (1 a.m. PT) on April 26. More than 200,000 people are ...

What happens during the interregnum period? Tom Reese, S.J., explains the time between one pope's death and the succession of ...

Brandishing his government-gifted medals near a statue of the Virgin Mary in East Timor's capital, ex-rebel Crisanto de Jesus ...

You can read the English translation of the prepared text of the homily, delivered in Italian by Cardinal Giovanni Battista ...

The 135 cardinals eligible to elect the next pope will enter the Sistine Chapel to begin the conclave May 7, the Vatican ...

Mourning of the late Pope Francis continued in Japan on Monday, with people paying their respects in front of a ...