Cardinal Kevin Farrell presided over the first ritual of Francis's funeral rites, known as the “rite of the ascertainment of death and deposition in the coffin.” ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has begun generating test images of the night sky, but the big reveal is expected ...

Vatican City, where the Roman Catholic Church is located, is not only famous for being the home of the Pope but also for the ...

The death of a pope triggers a centuries-old ritual to elect a new one. It involves sacred oaths, the piercing of ballots ...

Pope Francis, who rose from modest means in Argentina to become the first Jesuit and Latin American pontiff, clashed bitterly ...