Instead of a steel lined casket, the deceased are wrapped in a shroud, often made from cotton, linen or silk, and placed in a woven basket or pine box before they are lowered into a grave ...

As per his request, Francis will be laid to rest in an understated underground vault at St. Mary Major Basilica ... moving through the grand archway gates into the piazza. A choir’s chant ...

into the heady atmosphere of freedom and possibility offered by this amazing place at that amazing time. ♪♪ ♪♪ -It was 1968, the Lower East Side, and we were taking a photo shoot.

Lorenzo Fontana, a conservative politician who is president of the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the Italian Parliament, knelt by Francis’ coffin and crossed himself. On Wednesday ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis' wooden coffin was carried into St Peter's Square on Saturday (April 26) at the start of a funeral Mass attended by a multitude of mourners, including powerful world ...

A man died Wednesday after he fell into what a Cal Fire captain described as a utility vault where he appears to have been working. Cal Fire Captain John Clingingsmith Jr. said that firefighters ...

Relatives of a man killed in recent Indian airstrikes in Muzaffarabad, Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, carried his coffin away for burial on Wednesday. This comes after India fired missiles across border ...

Pope Francis’ coffin is carried out of Saint Peter's Basilica into Saint Peter's Square, where the ceremony will begin. The ceremony will take place primarily within the Vatican, before Pope ...

The Hearst Foundations has awarded Washington State University with a $150,000 grant. The Hearst Foundations has awarded two Washington groups with grants. The Hearst Foundations has awarded ...