The man who would become Pope Francis always bought his shoes in the same small store. And now, the remarkably ordinary ...

White Crucifixion” marked the start of a series of paintings in which he envisioned Christ as an emblem of Jewish persecution ...

Pope Francis's tomb has been made of Ligurian marble and only bears the inscription Franciscus, his name in Latin, the ...

The body of Pope Francis is lying in state in St. Peter’s Basilica, where it will remain for three days until his funeral ...

Among the many traditions and rituals that come into play following the death of a pope, one that has once again garnered ...

The proposed Feast of Creation in Christ would align the Catholic Church and several Protestant Churches with the liturgical tradition of the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Byzantine Catholic rite, ...

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He even threw a thumbs-up, raised a victory fist and made a small sign of the cross — though the upper ... front of the Salus populi Romani icon, a Byzantine-style painting Francis adores ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — A frail Pope Francis returned to the Vatican on Sunday after a five-week hospitalization for life-threatening double pneumonia, and he made a surprise stop at his favorite ...