While Francis’ funeral processions have broken with tradition in a variety of ways — including allowing the public to view ...

Swiss Guards stood at attention on both sides of the casket as it awaited transfer to St. Peter's Basilica, where the pope will lie in state for three days. Francis was dressed in a red chasuble ...

His body will go into a zinc-lined, wooden coffin instead of the triplicate coffins of the past (cypress, lead and oak). It will bypass the private viewing for church officials in the Apostolic Palace ...