Pope Francis met with Presidents Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden during his time leading the Catholic Church. ... 88, to serve as the pope following Pope Benedict XVI in March 2013.

Pope Francis, right, hugs Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI prior to the start of a meeting with elderly faithful in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on Sept. 28, 2014. Credit: AP/Gregorio Borgia By The ...

Pope Francis, whose warm, humble, ... Pope Francis, right, hugs Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in 2014. (Gregorio Borgia / Associated Press) His rise within the ranks was steady.

After Pope Francis's body arrived at Saint Peter's Basilica for his funeral in April 2025, ... But the video in fact shows former pope Benedict XVI lying in state in January 2023.

Pope Francis and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI were brothers in Christ before being selected for the most holy position within the Roman Catholic Church. Both men decided early in life to devote ...

We wanted to look back on his papacy, his legacy, and also look forward to the next pope, so we asked veteran Vatican correspondent Francis X. Rocca to meet recently on the terrace of a convent in ...

Francis presides over the funeral Mass for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in St. Peter’s Square. This was the first time in more than 200 years that a pope participated in his predecessor’s funeral.

Well, Pope Francis and Pope Benedict were very different people. Pope Benedict, of course, was an academic. He was a scholar, a writer of books and a very complex theology.

Much of the coverage of Pope Francis' legacy on Monday (April 21) dwelt with the ways he differed from his predecessors, Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI.

In accordance with his wishes, Francis will be the first pope to be buried outside the Vatican in more than a century. Traditionally, popes are interred at St. Peter's Basilica.

While Francis’ funeral processions have broken with tradition in a variety of ways — including allowing the public to view his body — the mass will involve a series of longtime Catholic symbo… ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI stunned the world when he announced his resignation in 2013, the first in 600 years. That led some to wonder if, as he grew increasingly frail and sick ...