The new pope was elected on May 8 as the 267th leader of the Roman Catholic Church Gabrielle Rockson ... Chapel and walking around it once with incense shortly after 11 a.m. local time.

The simple yet profound image of the breeze blowing the pages of the Book of the Gospels resting on top of the pope's coffin.

The 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, Argentinian-born Jorge ... Battista Re anoints the coffin of Pope Francis with incense. Laid atop it is a book of gospels. Prince William was in ...

The funeral cortège will travel to the basilica from St. Peter's at walking pace. Crowds are expected to gather along the ...

The leader of the Roman Catholic Church died on Easter Monday ... square as the Pope's coffin was blessed with holy water and incense was burned to symbolise cleansing. Bishop John Keenan, of ...

Pope Francis, whose warm, humble, no-nonsense manner galvanized the Roman Catholic Church and drew ... with clouds of incense and the choir chanting the Litany of Saints hymn.

I’m not the kind of Catholic that follows the Vatican’s ... The music, the smell of incense and the prayer sent me into a trance that’s hard to describe to non-believers.

It was followed by a blessing from Eastern rite Catholic churches chanted in Greek ... Giovanni Battista Re blessed the coffin with incense and holy water. As he headed to Rome, reporters aboard ...

A soft aroma of incense permeated St. Mary’s ... said Brett Meister, spokesman for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix. The 20-minute prayer service from the day before brought out an ...

More than 400,000 people filled St. Peter’s Square for the funeral of Pope Francis on Saturday as the world said goodbye to the first Latin American pope who led the Catholic Church for the ...