Cardinal Luis Pascual Dri, the Argentine priest whom Pope Francis held up as the model confessor, has died in Buenos Aires at ...

His funeral, which is expected to draw huge crowds, will take place at 10:00 am (0800 GMT) on Saturday in the majestic Baroque plaza in front of St Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. Francis's coffin -- ...

On December 15, 2024, Pope Francis traveled to Corsica for the conclusion of the Congress La Religiosité Populaire en Méditerranée, held in Ajaccio, the island’s largest city. It was the pope’s 47th ...

As Pope Francis became the first pope to celebrate Mass on the French island of Corsica Dec. 15, the usual excitement of an open-air Mass with the pope was combined with the flair and pageantry of a ...

Pope Francis greets faithful as he arrives outside the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption of Ajaccio on the occasion of his one-day visit in the French island of Corsica, Sunday, Dec. 15, 2024.

The pope spent about nine hours in Ajaccio, Corsica's capital. After attending the conference, he celebrated an outdoor Mass with what the Vatican estimated was a crowd of 15,000 Catholics.

The pope decided not to go, and the two instead met briefly at Ajaccio airport on Sunday before Francis headed back to Rome. Francis thanked Macron for making the visit to Corsica to see him. Macron, ...

The pope's trip to Corsica was, meanwhile, shunned by ministers and elected representatives from the French mainland, apart from Marseille's mayor, Benoît Payan, who is originally from the ...

Pope Francis stands as he celebrates a mass Sunday, Dec. 15, 2024 in Ajaccio on the first papal visit ever to the French island of Corsica . (AP Photo/Thibault Camus) ...

Pope Francis stands as he celebrates a mass Sunday, Dec. 15, 2024 in Ajaccio on the first papal visit ever to the French island of Corsica . (AP Photo/Thibault Camus) ...