The funeral and burial of a pope who dies in office should take place “between the fourth and sixth day after death,” the ...

Even the moment of the formal verification of the pope’s death takes place in the context of a prayer service “at home” in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae where he lived. The Vatican said that ...

Later in the morning, local Churches started tolling the death knell from their bell towers. The request had come from ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Tapping into the spirit and spirituality of his namesake, St. Francis of Assisi, Pope Francis made care ...

The son of Italian immigrants in Argentina, Pope Francis sometimes invoked his own family history when speaking about ...

Elected in March 2013 as an outsider who could reform the Roman Curia, meaning the central government of the Church, but who ...

Because Easter fell on the same day on the Julian and Gregorian calendars, meaning Catholic and Orthodox were celebrating on ...

Leading his first Easter Sunday Mass as Washington’s new archbishop, Cardinal Robert W. McElroy said the Resurrection of ...