Vatican authorities kept St. Peter's Basilica open all night as an estimated 50,000 people lined around St. Peter's Square and out of the Vatican into Rome to view the body of Pope Francis lying ...

VATICAN CITY — As the words "Habemus papam!"rang out from the famed loggia of St. Peter's Basilica, tens of thousands of people, crushed tightly together, erupted in cheers — and tears.

Pope Francis Pope Francis’ body is transferred to St. Peter's Basilica for public viewing Pope Francis' funeral is set for Saturday at 10 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square ...

A procession will start at Santa Marta, pass through Santa Marta Square and the Square of the Roman Protomartyrs before reaching St. Peter’s Square and entering the Vatican Basilica.

The body of Pope Francis is carried through St. Peter's Square to St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Wednesday, April 23, 2025, where he will lie in state for three days.

Out of devotion to the pope and his message of inclusion, the grieving faithful joined the procession of mourners that wended from St. Peter’s Square through the basilica's Holy Door, with the ...

Youth gather in St. Peter's Square the evening of April 26, hours after hundreds of thousands of Catholics, leaders and diplomats crammed into St. Peter's Square to mourn the death of Pope Francis.

And then, as he emerges onto the balcony in St. Peter's Basilica and his name is said, in a way, there was actually almost kind of a sort of confusion because the speakers are not actually that good.

“More than a pope, he was a fatherly figure for us migrants,” said Virginia Munos Ramires, 30, an El Salvador native, as she held onto a railing in St. Peter’s Square under the beating sun.

Pope Francis appears at the main balcony of St. Peter's Basilica before the Urbi et Orbi message and blessing to the city and the world as part of Easter celebrations, at St Peter's Square in the ...

Out of devotion to the pope and his message of inclusion, the grieving faithful joined the procession of mourners that wended from St. Peter’s Square through the basilica's Holy Door, with the ...