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

Kielce Gussie, a U.S. journalist who works for Vatican News, gave the first reading at the funeral of Pope Francis.

Hundreds of thousands of mourners — monarchs and presidents, cardinals and sisters, Jubilee pilgrims and tourists — turned ...

American journalist Kielce Gussie played a role during Pope Francis' funeral, where she did the first reading.

Numerous leaders will travel to Vatican City, the papal enclave surrounded by Rome, Italy, for the funeral services of Pope ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Mourners will bid their final farewells to the late Pope Francis at his funeral on Saturday, which will blend conventional Catholic funeral traditions with rituals reserved ...

Traditionally, the pope's internment, which takes place between four and six days following his death, occurs after a traditional Roman Catholic funeral Mass officiated by the dean of the College ...

The mercy of God is invoked at any Catholic funeral, and Divine Mercy has been a mainstay of papal life for 25 years. The first Divine Mercy Sunday of the third millennium was not, strictly ...

American Kielce Gussie, who works as a journalist at Vatican News, did the first reading -- several verses from the Acts of the Apostles -- at Pope Francis' funeral.

The Rev. Michael Duffy, rector of the Cathedral of St. Agnes parish in Rockville Centre, has blessed the bodies of scores of people at funerals ... is among several Catholic priests from Long ...

Britain's BBC will also provide live coverage. EWTN will also broadcast the funeral Mass live, with coverage beginning at 3 a.m. EDT. The Catholic Channel (Channel 129) on SiriusXM radio will also ...

For a long period in our history, it would have been very odd for the leader of the Catholic Church to be treated with the honor of the American president going to his funeral,” said Michael ...