Popes lead the Catholic Church as successors to Saint Peter, guiding over a billion followers worldwide through faith, ...

If you look at Vatican TV live right now, you’ll see a queue of people lining up inside St Peter’s basilica to visit the ...

Broadway review by Adam Feldman . Elmer McCurdy wanted to be somebody. Born out of wedlock to a teenage mother in late-19th-century Maine, he grew up dreaming of infamy. (“I’m ...

For centuries, popes have been laid to rest in three nested coffins, each one symbolic, sacred, and deeply rooted in history.

Many of the traditions that will dictate Pope Francis’s funeral date back more than 2,000 years. They are compiled in a tome ...

Dead bodies on display in a coffin are regarded nowadays as in rather ... Our lot don’t want a memento mori, that medieval symbol of death to remind us that this life is passing away.

Pope Francis’ coffin was closed and sealed in St. Peter’s Basilica in a private ceremony on Friday evening after more than 250,000 people paid their final respects to the late pope over three ...