The footage showed a Holy Week procession in Cartagena, in the Murcia region of Spain, not the funeral. Missing context. In the context of the Catholic Church, the inverted cross is a reference to ...

and hundreds of thousands of people to Rome on Saturday to bid him farewell in a ceremony of breathtaking spectacle that offered age-old Catholic funeral rites and touching moments of personal grief.

A simplified papal funeral will make a fitting farewell for a pontiff who just three days after his surprise election expressed his desire for "a church that is poor and for the poor." Some of the ...

The funeral for Pope Francis brought some Catholics along the First Coast to a place they found fitting to reflect at — church. A few parishioners at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Mandarin ...

More than 250,000 people, including heads of state, royalty and the ordinary Catholic faithful were in attendance for the funeral of Pope Francis, who was remembered for his humility and humanity.

Pope Francis, Bishop of Rome and Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church, died Monday morning, Vatican camerlengo Cardinal Kevin Farrell announced. The Pope's funeral is set for Saturday at 10 a.m ...

The funeral for Pope Francis, the first pontiff from the Americas, took place in Saint Peter’s Square in Rome’s Vatican City on Saturday morning. He arrived at Basilica of Saint Mary Major in ...

Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times Supported by By Jason Horowitz Reporting from Vatican City In a solemn and majestic funeral on the steps of St. Peter’s Basilica, the Roman Catholic Church ...

Britain's BBC will also provide live coverage. EWTN will also broadcast the funeral Mass live, with coverage beginning at 3 a.m. EDT. The Catholic Channel (Channel 129) on SiriusXM radio will also ...

Italy allowed him to land because he was going to the Vatican, which is not part of the E.U.) Two years ago, the Catholic Church held a funeral for Benedict XVI. But the circumstances of that ...

EWTN Global Catholic Network prepares for live coverage of Pope Francis' funeral Crowds in St. Peter's Square cheered as white smoke signaled a new pope This Is the Most Affordable Fastest-growing ...

In pairs, cardinals approached the casket, bowed and made a sign of the cross ... and funeral inaugurate a carefully orchestrated period of transition in the 1.4 billion-strong Catholic Church ...