The Vatican releases first images of Pope Francis, showing him in his casket with the Vatican secretary of state praying over him.

The photos show the pope dressed in red vestments and lying in a simple, wooden coffin inside the chapel of the Santa Marta ...

Analysis - From the moment of his election in 2013, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the man who became Pope Francis, proved himself to ...

From the moment of his election in 2013, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the man who became Pope Francis, proved himself to be unconventional. Shedding much of the formality of previous papal elections, he ...

JORGE Mario Bergoglio was a Pope of firsts, the outsider’s outsider. Into the soutane-black of a cool March 2013 Rome night, ...

Two months after battling with a severe respiratory infection (bilateral pneumonia), the head of the Catholic pontiff, Pope ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Some takeaways about the life of Pope Francis, who died Monday: ...

He was a chemist, a bar bouncer, and a tango enthusiast. Pope Francis has broken the mold both inside and outside the Vatican ...

At the Vatican, he became the first Jesuit pope and moved quickly to modernize the Catholic Church with a slate of ...