Pope John XXIII died in the summer of 1963, and young as I was, it became blurred in memory with a very different yet quite similar series of honors in November, with the death of President John F.

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, who served as Pope Francis’s secretary of state, stands by the pope’s coffin in the chapel of his ...

The burial of a pope follows a solemn and symbolic process. Here’s a guide to the declaration of death, burial site, casket, ...

Despite the papal tradition of a St. Peter’s Basilica burial, it’s expected that Pope Francis will be laid to rest elsewhere, ...