“It's very beautiful that he's going back, having concluded his ministry, to the place where it began," Father Patrick Briscoe tells PEOPLE Pope Francis was laid to rest in the basilica of St. Mary ...

Capital Region Catholics are reflecting on Pope Francis's legacy and message. Pope Francis died at age 88 Monday, one day after joining worshippers at the Vatican on Easter. Francis had been sick for ...

ROME — Pope Francis will be the first pontiff in more than a century to be buried outside the Vatican Grottoes. After his funeral on Saturday, he will be laid to rest in the Basilica of St. Mary Major ...

First pope to be buried outside Vatican in over a century His resting place chosen due to his devotion to Mary Francis simplified traditional papal funeral rites ROME, April 22 (Reuters) - Pope ...

"The Virgin Mary told me, 'Prepare the tomb.'" That is what Pope Francis said Mary told him when he was discerning whether to be buried in the historic Marian church where his body will be laid to ...

While hundreds of thousands of people flocked to Vatican City for Pope Francis' funeral on Saturday, some South Florida Catholics who couldn't make it went to the Cathedral of St. Mary for a Vigil ...