The Vatican subsequently released Francis’ testament, dated June 29, 2022, confirming that he wished to be buried in the ...

The pontiff will be laid to rest after a Mass in front of St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City. The first Jesuit and first ...

St. John died in a building behind the St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral on Capitol Hill. The room where he died is a ...

More than 250,000 people paid their respects to the pontiff at his funeral in front of St. Peter’s Basilica, the Vatican said ...

That simple but so important Sign of the Cross we see so often holds a hidden history that takes us back to the origins of ...

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 ...

Pope Francis’ wooden coffin will be sealed on Friday night, in a private rite that officially ends three days of his body ...

Earlier this year, Fr Michael Dass, parish priest of the Church of St Joseph, initiated the construction of fourteen new outdoor Stations of the Cross around the parish grounds. Built mainly using ...

Ed Wilkinson remembers growing up in Greenpoint in the 1950s, and gazing across the East River on Good Friday to see three ...

On Easter Sunday at two local Episcopalian Churches, the cross will be transformed from a symbol of death to a sign of life ...

St. Jerome Parish in Chicago continues its tradition of reenacting the Stations of the Cross on Good Friday, drawing ...