The office of pope, successor of St. Peter, has always been steeped in symbolism. But as popes came and went, one symbol has ...

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The rite began in the chapel of the Casa Santa Marta, where Francis lived for the 12 years of his pontificate and where he ...

He oversaw the organization of the funeral ceremony for Pope Francis, ensuring everything aligned with Bergoglio's last ...

In a final journey through the eternal city, Pope Francis was laid to rest at the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore - the ...

Thomas R. Smith, the chairman of King’s College’s board of directors, is in Rome ahead of the funeral of Pope Francis, who ...

After a tumultuous papacy, Pope Francis leaves the Chair of Peter with faithful American Catholics anticipating a return to orthodoxy.