Pope Francis died Monday at the age of 88. As tributes pour in from around the world, the Vatican faces a transition.

Meet the Irish-American Camerlengo and Italian dean who are in charge of administering the Church during this interim period.

The death of a pope sets in motion a series of carefully orchestrated rites and rituals well before the conclave to elect his ...

In the last 18 months of his life, Pope Francis had a frequent ritual: He would call the lone Catholic church in the Gaza ...

Pope Francis’s death on Monday has triggered a period of mourning across the Catholic Church, including in Washington. The ...

The body of Pope Francis will be moved Wednesday morning to St. Peter’s Basilica for three days of public mourning for an ...

The crowds are getting bigger in Vatican City as people pay their respects to Pope Francis and preparations begin for the ...

Between the fourth and sixth day after the pope’s death, the papal funeral takes place in St. Peter’s Basilica or St. Peter’s ...

Rooted in ancient Christian and Roman customs, the Novendiales is a period of nine consecutive days dedicated to mourning the ...

COLUMBIA — Pope Francis died early Monday morning, and the Catholic Church is now in a nine-day mourning period, known as the ...

They will come together and in secret, they will vote by a very precise and rather ancient procedure of voting." ...

On Monday in Rome, a rosary service was held for Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Square by Cardinal Mauro Gambetti. Beginning ...