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Defence and security mechanisms are deployed across Rome as authorities expect crowds of up to 200,000 peoplePope Francis’s funeral – latest updatesDespite Pope Francis’s desire for a simple and comparatively low-key send-off, those tasked with organis…
Francis will lie in state for three days at St Peter’s Basilica before funeral is held on Saturday. This live blog is closedThe coffin makes it way through the Vatican towards St Peter’s Basilica, accompanied by the choir’s singing, starting with Psalm…
New taskforce demands names in rooting out ‘policies, procedures … or understandings hostile to Christian views’ The veterans affairs department (VA) is ordering staff to report colleagues for instances of “anti-Christian bias” to a newly established t…
Pope Francis, head of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics, died at his home in the Vatican on Monday aged 88. This live blog is closedThe Vatican also confirmed that Pope Francis’s coffin will be transferred to St Peter’s Basilica on Wednesday morning, w…
Locals hail pontiff’s work in city’s poorest neighbourhoods – but express sadness that he never came back as popeBefore he left Argentina and moved to Italy to become pope, Jorge Mario Bergoglio would visit the country’s villas miserias, not in a car f…
In today’s newsletter: He was an unpredictable leader unafraid to upset traditionalists, but was he really a liberal figure – and will his changes last?Good morning. On Sunday, after a 38-day hospitalisation, Pope Francis greeted crowds in St Peter’s S…
Officials and campaigners from around world pay tribute to pontiff who put environment at heart of his papacyPope Francis, groundbreaking Jesuit pontiff, dies aged 88He declared destroying the environment a sin, warned that humanity was turning the glo…
Pope Francis, an outsider Jesuit pontiff from Argentina, is being mourned across the globe – here is the front-page reaction in BritainThe death of Pope Francis has reverberated around the world, with the Catholic leader remembered by millions as a Jes…
Sam Mostyn would be ‘appropriate representative’, PM says as both party leaders step back from election campaign trail before third debateMykola Bychok: the Melbourne bishop who will help choose the next popeElection 2025 live updates: Australia federa…
From Timor-Leste to PNG and the Philippines, millions of Catholics are marking the death of Pope FrancisThe death of Pope Francis has left millions of people in south-east Asia and the Pacific in deep mourning, as they remember a Catholic leader known …