During Eastertime – the current liturgical season, spanning 50 days from Easter Sunday to Pentecost – the prayer is ...

As many as 200,000 people are expected to attend the funeral, which Francis choreographed himself when he revised and simplified the Vatican’s rites and rituals last year. His aim was to emphasize the ...

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

World leaders and rank-and-file Catholic faithful bade farewell to Pope Francis in a funeral Saturday that highlighted his concern for people on the peripheries and reflected his wish to be remembered ...

World leaders and Catholic faithful bade farewell to Pope Francis in a funeral Saturday reflecting his priorities as pope and wishes as pastor. Though presidents and princes attended the Mass in St.

Since then, Venus has emerged low in the east before sunrise as the Morning Star ... the three largest — cover the largest area in square degrees — can be found in spring skies: Hydra ...

Though presidents and princes attended the Mass in St. Peter’s Square, prisoners and migrants ... mourners were turned away in droves. By dawn Saturday, they were back, some recalling the ...

On his last full day on earth, Francis’ final Urbi et Orbi message delivered in St Peter’s Square on Easter Sunday decried the “contempt stirred up at times towards the vulnerable ...

By Santul Nerkar The crowd of protesters that packed Foley Square in downtown Manhattan on ... I imagine it felt in the McCarthy era,” said Dawn Cardi, a defense lawyer who helped organize ...

Heads of state and royalty will start converging on Rome on Friday for the funeral of Pope Francis in the Vatican’s St. Peter ...

Pope Francis waves from a balcony on the day of the “Urbi et Orbi” (to the city and to the world) message, at St Peter’s Square ... Unique in modern times, there were two men wearing ...

A solemn and beloved city tradition, the Sunrise Service offers a period of calm and reflection, a counter to these zany times. The service will begin at 6 a.m. in the Salem Square at Old Salem.