For over 600 years carpets from Anatolia, Turkey and Persia have been used in Catholic ceremony and religious paintings by ...

Mourners stood in line for hours on Thursday to pay their final respects to Pope Francis, whose body is lying in state in St.

The basilica was bathed in a hushed silence as mourners from across the globe made a slow, shuffling procession up the main ...

The Vatican opted to extend the visiting hours at St. Peter's Basilica on the evening of Wednesday, April 23, as thousands of ...

So many mourners lined up to see Pope Francis lying in state in a simple wooden coffin inside St. Peter’s Basilica that the ...

NBC News gained behind-the-scenes access to St. Peter's Basilica as thousands of people waited in hours-long lines to pay ...

Pope Francis’ coffin has arrived at St Peter’s Basilica, where he will lie in state before his funeral on Saturday.

Emilio Morenatti, chief photographer in Spain for The Associated Press, arrived in St. Peter’s Square before sunrise to wait ...

A conclave to choose a new pope normally takes place 15 to 20 days after the death of a pontiff, meaning this conclave should not start before May 6.

The body of Pope Francis will be taken today from Casa Santa Marta to St Peter’s Basilica, where he will lie in state until ...

The body of Pope Francis has been moved to St Peter's Basilica, where tens of thousands of mourners will queue to file past ...