His public persona may have been the humble and patient father figure, but Francis spent his 12 years as pope reorganizing the Vatican bureaucracy — the Roman curia — with more than a touch of ...

The pontiff's body will be on display in St Peter's Basilica for the public to pay their respects from Wednesday morning.

The American cardinal who runs the Vatican while there’s no Pope - Cardinal Kevin Farrell will orchestrate the conclave to ...

He grew up in a working-class neighborhood in Dublin, and now Kevin Farrell is set to preside over the election of the new ...

Tributes to Pope Francis pour in from around the world with Vatican set to published details of funeral and conclave ...

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The Vatican has released images of Pope Francis being laid out in an open coffin ahead of the Confirmation of the Death of ...

A change in popes is a complicated process, with centuries-old rituals involving the transition in leadership for both the ...

Cardinals have begun meeting in Rome this morning for the first time since the pope's death to confirm the details of his ...

Cardinal Kevin Farrell remembers the day Pope Francis asked him to be the camerlengo, the Vatican official who runs the Holy See after the death of one pope and before the election of another. They ...

Francis was more tolerant with another critic, the retired archbishop of Hong Kong, Cardinal Joseph Zen. He excoriated the ...