The pontiff will be laid to rest after a Mass in front of St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City. The first Jesuit and first ...

POPE Francis has passed from this world, to the great sorrow of all who loved him and his style of leadership as head of the ...

The Course of Empire' is a cycle of paintings by 19th-century artist Thomas Cole that depict the rise and fall of an ...

Pope Francis, the first pontiff from Latin America, died on Easter Monday at the age of 88. In his will, Francis requested to ...

New, almost life-size statues discovered in a necropolis in Pompeii. Details about the possible Roman priestess.

The funeral of Pope Francis captures a fundamental visual and ideological tension within Catholicism.

The Easter season offers us the opportunity to let ourselves be perplexed and even to doubt as we wait for the good news to ...

Like many unwritten masterpieces, the book was born and died in a Dublin pub: the since defunct Grogan’s on Leeson Street ...

The pontiff, who died on Easter Monday aged 88, had a special relationship with the church, and landed on it as his final ...

The resignation of Pope Benedict XVI in February 2013 sent shockwaves through the global community, breaking an eight-century ...

World leaders and Catholic faithful have said farewell to Pope Francis in a funeral that highlighted his concern for people ...

From “camerlengo” to “white smoke,” here’s what to know about the words and phrases that guide the process after a pope dies.