The service always includes one or more psalms. These ancient prayers, taken from the Old Testament, reflect the full range ...

Strict diplomatic protocol dictates the seating arrangements, with both the United States and Peru getting front-row seats thanks to the pope's dual citizenship.

got closer to the place where the tomb of St. Peter lies, exactly under the central altar and the dome of the basilica,” the Vatican said. Francis walked down the entire main street of the ...

In front of the altar lay the pope's simple cypress coffin, inlaid with a pale cross. The funeral set off nine days of official Vatican mourning for Francis, who took over following the ...

William, side by side with Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, stood for a moment's silence in front of Pope Francis's sealed wooden and zinc coffin in its place before the altar in St Peter's Basilica.

The tomb will be located near the altar of Saint Francis in the side nave ... s Square and its surrounding columns. Built around 432 under Pope Sixtus III, the basilica holds some of the Catholic ...

He last appeared in public on Sunday with an Easter blessing and popemobile tour ... Pope Francis’ body will lay in state on the main altar of the 16th century basilica, built over the traditional ...

Mr Albanese spent Easter Sunday morning at mass and praising his other creed, the South Sydney Rabbitohs. He took Holy Communion at St Mary’s Cathedral, where he was once an altar boy ...

Under clear spring skies and surrounded by thousands of faithful gathered in a St. Peter’s Square adorned with vibrant yellow daffodils, Pope Francis’ Easter Sunday homily called Christians to ...

I’ll always love them. But both could have used a good dose of what is the true meaning of Easter. Tomb of negativity Christians talk about how Jesus went to the cross to “die for our sins.” ...

Buried deep somewhere in one of my family photo albums is a color picture taken of me and my brothers sometime in the early 1970s standing side by side in starched, itchy clothes holding Easter ...