In today’s newsletter, the ritualistic sights and scenes at Pope Francis’s funeral. Plus: I watched the funeral for Pope ...

Huge crowds were already growing outside the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, where Pope Francis will be buried. The ...

The Roman soldier thus received a sum, intended in part for his ration of salt, the salarium (money for salt), which gave us our word “salary.” Its value does not diminish during religious ...

What a humbling feeling it was to have the leader of the Roman Catholic Church ask you to pray for him. While it shocked us in the moment, perhaps it should not have. Pope Francis lived a life rooted ...

Thousands of people had made an early morning pilgrimage to St. Peter's Square April 23 to witness the transfer and pray for ...

In his brief final testament, Pope Francis asked to be buried at Rome's Basilica of St. Mary Major and said he had offered ...

Pope Francis, who passed away on April 21 at 88, leaves behind a legacy as vast and varied as his global influence. For many ...

Chaplain Volodymyr was in the middle of his Easter prayer near the front in Ukraine's Donetsk region when another explosion ...

In an unscripted moment, Enaje had tumbled down an embankment while navigating the narrow path to the cross after being ...

The earliest known Jesus mosaic inscription declaring Jesus as God, the Megiddo mosaic, was found under a prison in Israel.

This Friday marks the day that Christians commemorate as the day Jesus was crucified on the cross, to rise again two days ...

President of Russia Vladimir Putin has announced an Easter truce. During a meeting at the Kremlin, the Supreme Commander-in-Chief heard a report by Chief of the General Staff of Russia's Armed ...