By AFPPope Francis led the funeral of his predecessor Benedict XVI on Thursday in front of tens of thousands of mourners in St Peter's Square, an event unprecedented in modern times.Red-clad cardinals, dignitaries and thousands of priests and nuns fr...

By AFPThousands of Catholics paid their respects Monday to former pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican, at the start of three days of lying-in-state at St Peter's Basilica before his funeral.They began queueing before dawn to view the German theologian's...