Here are the key things to know about the funeral of the first Latin American pontiff in the church’s history.

Over three days this week, more than 250,000 people stood for hours in line to pay their final respects while Francis’ body lay in state in St. Peter’s Basilica.

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In the interim, the Vatican is being run by a handful of cardinals, key among them Re, who is organizing the secret voting in the Sistine Chapel. Francis is breaking with recent tradition and will be ...

Epiphana Lubangula, 53, a Tanzania native who works as a nurse in Italy, said, “We are here from the West to the East ... of Pope Francis at the Basilica of St. Mary Major on Tuesday.Credit ...

In the interim, the Vatican is being run by a handful of cardinals, key among them Cardinal ... tradition and he was laid to rest in St. Mary Major Basilica, near Rome's main train station ...

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The decision by Pope Francis to break with tradition and be buried at the Papal Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome rather ...

Cardinals have performed the rite of burial for Pope Francis at his simple tomb inside Rome’s St. Mary Major Basilica ... run by a handful of cardinals, key among them Re, who is organizing ...