The world will be watching Vatican City after the death of the pontiff, but behind closed doors, centuries-old ceremonies are ...

The death of a Pope triggers a centuries-old ritual involving the destruction of the Fisherman’s Ring, a symbol of papal ...

Cardinal Kevin Farrell, the Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, will preside at the Rite of Sealing of the Coffin of Pope ...

Cardinals have begun preparing for the funeral of Pope Francis, with world leaders expected to attend the ceremony in advance ...

A look into the rites and rituals that take place after a pope dies. Pope Francis' funeral will take place on Saturday.

A cardinal puts the Fisherman’s Ring, made of gold-plated silver, on a finger of Pope Francis during ... with the papal mitre on his head and a rosary in his hand. The body of Pope Francis ...

His father was a Roman Catholic who had drifted out of the Church but came back to it, and P.J. grew up in a good Catholic home, where no evening passed without the Rosary being recited.