Cardinals have decided that the public viewing of Pope Francis will begin Wednesday in St. Peter’s Basilica, after his casket ...

Dozens of people gathered at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Buenos Aires to pray and pay homage to Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Pope ...

Cardinals are meeting at the Vatican to make the first decisions about running the Catholic Church following the death of ...

Celebrating his first Easter Vigil as the new archbishop of Washington, Cardinal Robert W. McElroy said that Jesus, through ...

Pope Francis, who died on Monday, revised various rites last year, simplifying the funeral rituals to emphasize his role as a mere bishop and allowing for burial outside the Vatican in keeping with ...

Celebrated as one Great Sunday of 50 days, Easter continues through Pentecost Sunday. Even the names of the Sundays of this season indicate this. The Sundays between Easter and Pentecost are called Su ...

Francis signaled a very different tone for the papacy, stressing humility over hubris for a Catholic Church beset by scandal ...

The Bolsheviks pursued a clear ideological goal: to eradicate religion and install state atheism across the USSR. Bolshevik ...

The death of a pope sets in motion a series of carefully orchestrated rites and rituals well before the conclave to elect his ...

Pope Francis’ funeral and burial explained as death kicks of series of rituals - Upon the pope’s death, the head of the Vatican health service examines the body ...

1221 But above all, the crossing of the Red Sea ... 1243 The white garment symbolizes that the person baptized has "put on Christ," 42 has risen with Christ. The candle , lit from the Easter ...

Lights outside the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will permanently display the colors red, white and blue ...