Pope Francis’ funeral: More than 250,000 mourners attended a “simplified” service for Pope Francis at the Vatican today, remembering the “people’s pope” for his humanity and humility.

Hundreds sat down for the homily, while others tried to fan themselves with the funeral program booklet. With the pope being laid to rest, many Catholics were also starting to look ahead.

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Pope Francis, champion of the poor and the Church's first Latin American leader, will be honoured Saturday with a funeral attended by world leaders and tens of thousands of Catholic faithful.

The funeral of Pope Francis will take place in St Peter's Square in the Vatican on Saturday before he is buried at Santa Maria Maggiore basilica in Rome. US President Donald Trump and his wife ...

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Here is the official program of the ceremonies: The funeral mass presided over by the Italian Giovanni Battista Re, the dean of the College of Cardinals, begins. Francis's wooden and zinc coffin ...

The funeral of Pope Francis, who died on April 21 aged 88, will take place on Saturday. After a multi-lingual mass in St Peter's Square, his coffin will be taken to the Santa Maria Maggiore basilica, ...

(CNN) — The funeral of Pope Francis gave Catholics across the globe the chance to bid farewell to a beloved pontiff – and for world leaders to rub shoulders at a fraught time for international ...

Among them was Jean-Baptiste Leclezio, a 22-year-old from Lyon, who slept on the ground overnight at the seat of the Catholic Church to be among the first to enter for the funeral of Francis ...