A. Azzara Funeral Home was for decades a proverbial shoulder to cry on for countless grieving families on the borough’s East ...

The father of a great family has died — the Holy Father, we Catholics call him. The family of the world’s Catholics is in ...

In a break from tradition and by his prior request, the pope will be laid to rest in Rome's St. Mary Major Basilica instead ...

A train struck a funeral home limo carrying family members to a funeral, injuring six, Tennessee officials said. “Please keep a local family in your prayers today,” Bartlett Alderman Kevin Quinn said ...

We invite our global audience to join us in this period of mourning,’ he said. ‘May God have mercy on his servant and grant ...

The death of Pope Francis sets into motion a series of rituals, some of which go back more than 2,000 years, including how to choose the new pope. Here's what happens next.

Pope Francis had expressed the desire to be buried in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, a fifth-century church in Rome.

Indiana Wesleyan professor Mike Tapper worried few of his students would be ready to officiate a funeral when they became ...

Pope Francis' funeral rites, like those for any pope or any Christian, are meant to "reinforce the hope and witness to the faith" that those who have been baptized in Christ "will rise with him to new ...

The pope was released from a lengthy hospital stay less than a month ago for a life-threatening respiratory condition.

Many of the rituals and procedures of selecting a new pope — designed to ensure secrecy and an orderly transition — have ...

Planning for death, as hard as it may be, is one of the kindest acts you can offer.