Long lines at Santa Maria Maggiore to visit the austere niche where the Pope has rested since yesterday. We enter Santa Maria Maggiore accompanying Sister Esperanza. Her 93 years, her fragile balance, ...

Pope Francis was laid to rest in a location that reflected his humble approach to the grand office. Breaking with tradition, the pontiff, death at the age of 88 was announced on Easter Monday, chose a ...

Pope Francis is the pope of the people,” Rosa de los Ríos told America in Spanish before the funeral Mass. “He is very close ...

The funeral of Pope Francis today is expected to be simpler than those of other popes before him, going by the instructions ...

Each year on Aug. 5 the church liturgical calendar commemorates the dedication of St. Mary Major (in Italian, Santa Maria Maggiore), one of the five great ancient basilicas in Rome, and the place Pope ...

Rome is always teeming, and Easter usually kicks off the long tourist season. Up to 250,000 are expected to attend the Pope's ...

Little did Sr. Oliva Maria from Co Cavan know that the baby Jorge Mario would grow up to be Pope Francis, the leader of the ...

ON APRIL 21, instead of celebrating their 31st wedding anniversary, Advance Central College (ACC) Board of Trustees Chair ...

Newsday Zimbabwe THE Catholic Church in Zimbabwe will hold masses in honour of Pope Francis, who died on Monday. The first mass takes place tomorrow at 5:30pm with Apostolic Nuncio, the representative ...

Pope Francis, who visited more than 60 countries during his papacy, will make his final journey along the road from Vatican ...

Even in the last years of his life, despite significant health problems, Pope Francis was seen in a wheelchair praying in ...

On a chilly, cloudy morning in Rockland County, Rev. Steven Neier led a joyful yet solemn Easter Monday Mass at St. Paul's Catholic Church in Congers.