The pope’s unadorned tomb, marked by a single Latin word — Franciscus — was intended, a cleric said, to reflect a life of ...

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

The body of a saint who died in Seattle is said to have been "incorrupt," having not decomposed in 27 years. How is this ...

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For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in an island monastery carved into a seaside cliff that’s little changed since its founding more ...

In a solemn ceremony in St. Peter’s Square, political and religious leaders joined a crowd of thousands in mourning the death ...

A delegation from the Eastern Rites of the Catholic Church lead a prayer in Greek during the funeral of Pope Francis.

On Friday night the Pope’s coffin was sealed in a private Vatican ceremony after 250,000 visited his body lying in state at ...

The church said that although they cannot directly help with fighting the fire, they hope this is one way they can make an ...

ROME — Pope Francis will be the first pontiff in more than a century to be buried outside the Vatican Grottoes. After his ...

As the Vatican prepares to end viewings at St Peter's Basilica at 19:00 local time (18:00 BST), the BBC has spoken to the ...