Image Courtesy of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception By Zachary Lichter As Catholics around the world celebrated Easter with joy and happiness, things took an emotional ...

A devotee to Mary, Pius V established the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary ... canonizing St. Charles Borromeo and St. Frances of Rome and beatifying Sts. Ignatius Loyola, Francis Xavier, Philip ...

Three days of public viewing of Pope Francis’ body by ordinary mourners and statesmen alike have ended and the pontiff's coffin sealed.

Johann Xavier, who traveled from ... the Vatican held a Rosary prayer in St. Peter's Square in its first public commemoration. Francis was elected on a mandate to reform the Vatican bureaucracy ...

Image St. Peter’s square during the first prayer service, a rosary, in honor of Pope Francis, in Vatican City on Monday.Credit...Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times Jason Horowitz is the Rome ...