A thin, red book written in 1998 and revised in 2024 is controlling the events happening in the Vatican after Monday’s death of Pope Francis, governing most of the proceedings.Titled Ordo Exsequiarum ...

The Getty Museum has bolstered its collection of Spanish works with a painting by 16th-century master Luis de Morales.

Pope Francis’ final days weren’t wasted. They were a homily without words — on how to die with Jesus, love like Jesus, and ...

Pope Francis is lying in state in St Peter's Basilica, where tens of thousands of mourners will file past his open casket ...

The body of Pope Francis was carried in a solemn procession Wednesday from his residence within the walls of the Vatican City ...

They have seen and engaged with the risen Christ, they believe, and now they are boldly carrying out his mission. By contrast ...

ROME (CNS) — Today’s “builders of Babel” are constructing a hell on earth, rejecting everyone they decide are “losers,” Pope Francis wrote in the meditations for the Way of the Cross.

The death of a pope sets in motion a series of carefully orchestrated rites and rituals well before the conclave to elect his ...

At a time when nationalism, a concept long held in contempt by Francis, is surging again in the West, the church now finds ...

The body rests in the pope’s personal chapel for the ritual pronouncement of death, presided over by the camerlengo, the ...

The death of a pope sets in motion a series of carefully orchestrated rites and rituals well before the conclave to elect his ...