The funeral rites take place in three parts, called stations. The first takes place in the pope’s private chapel, after medical professionals have certified his death. Until recently, this stage had ...

See young photos of Pope Francis and follow his journey from priesthood in Argentina all the way to papacy in Vatican City, ...

Pope Francis's body is set to be moved into St Peter's Basilica at the Vatican later this week, where he will lie in state for three days before his funeral.

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

Pope Francis made good on his dedication to the less fortunate -- washing the feet of prisoners, embracing the marginalized and often rising in an open-air car instead of the bullet-proof popemobile ...

Because Easter fell on the same day on the Julian and Gregorian calendars, meaning Catholic and Orthodox were celebrating on ...

But even though Easter is significantly commercialized in stores and society in general, its origin is rooted in the Bible as ...

In the story I am thinking of, he does it in a particularly surprising way: God instructs Moses, the leader of the Israelites ...

For Christians Easter is the day when we believe that Jesus was raised from the dead early on Sunday morning after being crucified on Friday. Good Friday is a day ...

The picture of a whole lamb slowly turning on the spit over charcoal and the smell that accompanies it spells Easter Sunday ...

The basic facts of The Gospel (Christ’s death, burial, and even his resurrection) are established as matters of history ...