Historic churches in Staffordshire, Shropshire and Wyre Forest were among many struck by thieves snatching silverware, metal ...

A video has popped up where the statue of the Virgin Mary was reportedly shedding tears two days before the death of Pope ...

A video has popped up where the statue of the Virgin Mary was reportedly shedding tears two days before the death of Pope ...

Pope Francis had been suffering from health issues in the weeks before his death, including a more than one-month stay in the ...

The Dallas-area Catholic community on Monday mourned the passing of Pope Francis, reflecting on history’s first Latin ...

In his brief final testament, Pope Francis asked to be buried at Rome's Basilica of St. Mary Major and said he had offered ...

Portland theater owner Tom Moyer paid for the chapel in memory of his wife Marilyn. The building is 1,500 square feet and ...

In the last two years of his life, Pope Francis became preoccupied with the rites and rituals surrounding his funeral. What ...

Pope Francis’s tweaks are mostly focused on simplifying the ceremonies and eliminating unnecessary ornamentation. For example, he requested that the Vatican use just one coffin for the body of a ...

In a break from tradition and by his prior request, the pope will be laid to rest in Rome's St. Mary Major Basilica instead of in the crypt of St. Peter's Basilica, where many of pope's predecessors ...

Bishop Robert Brennan inspects fire damage at St. Edmund Church, recalling its resilience after Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

While many popes are buried under St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican, Pope Francis will not continue that trend. In December, Pope Francis said he wanted to be buried in the Rome basilica of St. Mary ...