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

After sitting on a shelf at a funeral home in Washington for nearly 100 years, the cremated remains of Harriet “Hattie” Van ...

An altar designer’s craft brought him face-to-face with Pope Francis Jain Joseph, an architectural designer from Thevara, Kochi, has spent decades crafting church altars. His skilled hands have ...

When Natalia Lafourcade sat down to craft “Cancionera,” she never expected to discover an alter ego that would lead her down a pathway of artistic enlightenment. She had always worn her heart on her ...

Pope Francis was moved Wednesday morning to St. Peter’s Basilica to lie in state for three days of public mourning for the ...

The Vatican opened St. Peter’s Basilica to the general public Wednesday to pay their final respects to Pope Francis, with ...

For the last three years, the seventh-grade students from St. Christopher the Martyr School in Metairie – with the help of ...

Although Pope Francis simplified the papal funeral rites in a move of typical modesty, Saturday’s ceremony will still be full of pomp and pageantry, as the world’s Catholics bid him farewell and ...

A change in popes is a complicated process, with centuries-old rituals involving the transition in leadership for both the ...

The body of late Pope Francis is lying in state in St. Peter’s Basilica, which will remain open for three days until his ...

Kochi: It was only a month since Pope Francis’ appointment as the head of the Roman Catholic Church when Jain Joseph first ...