ROME (CNS) — “We don’t have another theologian, it seems to me, that has been as engaged with modernity as Benedict,” said ...

The Vatican announced the revised liturgical book for papal funerals after the death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, ...

Shortly after the pope revealed that Spanish Cardinal Miguel Ángel Ayuso, prefect for the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue, was “very ill, at the end of his life,” O’sservatore Romano announced ...

After the funeral of his predecessor, Benedict XVI, the pope asked that the protocols for papal funerals be revised to evoke ...

The Vatican had to work out a funeral for a retired pope, and a few months later Francis revealed he was working with the ...

Pope Francis has approved new rites for his own funeral for when he dies to simplify rituals and be buried outside the ...

The journey includes Mass at Place d’Austerlitz and meetings with local clergy under Cardinal François-Xavier Bustillo.

Pope Francis denounces the hypocrisy of some countries “where there is much talk of peace” but “the highest yielding ...

Pope Francis announced this week that he intends on having a much more simple funeral than those of his predecessors at the ...

In essence, both suggested that due to irregularities in the 2013 resignation announcement of Pope Benedict XVI, Francis was ...