Around 40 people — homeless, prisoners, migrants and transgender people — will salute the pope holding a white rose, just ...

Pope Francis chose his place of burial in St. Mary Major Basilica, near an icon of the Madonna that he revered.

Archaeologists in Crete have uncovered a 3,800-year-old Minoan ritual of demolishing tombs and a communal feast.

The tomb's architecture and its decorations deepen the modern understanding of funerary practices "in this very ancient and sacred cemetery," says Anna-Latifa Mourad-Cizek, a historian and ...