Kielce Gussie, a U.S. journalist who works for Vatican News, gave the first reading at the funeral of Pope Francis.

Thousands of people are gathered in Rome to pay their final respects to Pope Francis. Watch the pope's funeral on Scripps ...

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Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, the 91-year-old dean of the College of Cardinals, delivered a lengthy, spirited and highly ...

Trump and Zelensky, both accompanied by their wives, sat in the front row of the funeral in St Peter's Square but were ...

Pope Francis, the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, will be mourned and buried at the Basilica of Saint Mary Major ...

Watch live coverage of Pope Francis’ funeral ceremony at the Vatican on NBC News. Pope Francis died on Easter Monday at age ...

His funeral is being held on Saturday in St. Peter's Square. Francis will then be buried, according to his will: in a simple underground tomb at St. Mary Major Basilica. The church is home to his ...

W ith Pope Francis’s death, the world reckons with the end of an era. The first Jesuit pope, the first from the Americas, and ...

Dean of the College of Cardinals Giovanni Battista Re presides over the funeral of Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Square at the ...

Mourners bid farewell to Pope Francis in a funeral that highlighted his concern for the 'most peripheral of the peripheries.' ...

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