The oldest and youngest cardinals—and some famous papal ‘lasts.’
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Conclave to elect a new pope will start on May 7
A conclave to elect a successor to Pope Francis will begin on Wednesday, May 7, the Vatican announced Monday.
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Cardinal Parolin: The church must carry on Pope Francis’ legacy of mercy
Cardinal Pietro Parolin told some 200,000 people in St. Peter’s Square that Pope Francis had made the message of God’s limitless mercy the heart of his pontificate.
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Trump and Zelenskyy meet inside St. Peter’s before Pope Francis’ funeral
Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy met inside St. Peter’s Basilica ahead of the funeral for Pope Francis on the morning of April 26.
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Pope Francis’ funeral: What to expect, including a procession not seen in 100 years
Pope Francis’ face was forever hidden from the world when his coffin was closed at 8 o’clock on Friday evening, April 25, just as the sun was setting over Rome.
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Pope Francis’ death: Reporting and reflections from ‘America’
We’ve collected some of our favorite analyses and remembrances of Francis’ papacy as a resource for Catholics mourning the church’s loss.
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St. Peter’s Basilica stays open all night as nearly 100,000 mourners pay respects to Pope Francis
So many mourners lined up to see Pope Francis lying in state in a simple wooden coffin inside St. Peter’s Basilica that the Vatican kept the doors open all night.
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Jesuit leader: Pope Francis allowed differing opinions—and didn’t ‘seek to please everyone’
A church that dialogues is “much more interesting than a church where things fall from up high,” Jesuit Father Arturo Sosa, superior general of the Jesuits, said.
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Vatican releases unpublished papal reflection on old age
Growing old isn’t something to be feared, but rather something to embrace as a time of grace in one’s life, Pope Francis wrote in a preface for a book that was not released before he died.
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Before picking a new pope, the cardinals will politick
Although overtly campaigning to be pope is discouraged and would be counterproductive, the cardinals do a lot of politicking in private prior to the conclave.