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"She arrived to say goodbye, hoping to see him again in eternal life."

Cardinal Vincent Nichols said Pope Francis had ‘died with his boots on’ and made a ‘total sacrifice’ in his life to the Church.

More than 60,000 people have visited St Peter’s Basilica to bid farewell to Pope Francis. The queue started again at 6 am on Thursday, and thousands continue to arrive. Euronews journalist Maria Michela D'Alessandro joined them.

I met Pope Francis in 2016. It was part of a symposium of the former Pontifical Council for Migrants and Itinerant People (now recast by Francis as the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development). I presented some of my work on migration – as attention to migrants and refugees was…

In 2010, Ghana's Cardinal Peter Turkson said he was not ready to become pope -- and that the Catholic Church might not be either.

Pope Francis' death has changed the plans of many people visiting the Italian capital, with thousands flocking to St Peter's Square in the Vatican to pay their respects.

In a small church tucked into a side street in northern China's Hebei province, a group of around 10 people gathered for their weekly meeting, the day after Pope Francis died aged 88.

Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle emerges as a prominent figure in discussions about who will succeed Pope Francis, but his age presents a potential obstacle.

Donald Trump and the UN chief among guests to attend funeral ceremonies for the Catholic Church’s late pontiff.

When the late Pope Francis first stepped on to the balcony of Saint Peter’s Basilica following his election 12 years ago, he remarked that he had been called almost from the “end of the world”. He was the first non-European pontiff since Gregory III, elected in AD731, who was of…

With Pope Francis's passing, focus turns to Cardinal Peter Turkson, who is a leading candidate in the upcoming papal election