As the bells tolled 88 times across the grounds of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on April ...

Beneath gray skies and the solemn toll of 88 bells – one for each year of life – a Memorial Mass was celebrated April 21 at ...

Pope Francis visited the National Shrine on Sept. 23, 2015 during his apostolic journey to the United States. At the National ...

With the death of Pope Francis, the canonization of Blessed Carlo Acutis, which was scheduled for April 27, has been ...

The funeral and burial of a pope who dies in office should take place “between the fourth and sixth day after death,” the ...

Even the moment of the formal verification of the pope’s death takes place in the context of a prayer service “at home” in ...

Later in the morning, local Churches started tolling the death knell from their bell towers. The request had come from ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Tapping into the spirit and spirituality of his namesake, St. Francis of Assisi, Pope Francis made care ...

The son of Italian immigrants in Argentina, Pope Francis sometimes invoked his own family history when speaking about ...

Elected in March 2013 as an outsider who could reform the Roman Curia, meaning the central government of the Church, but who ...

Because Easter fell on the same day on the Julian and Gregorian calendars, meaning Catholic and Orthodox were celebrating on ...

Leading his first Easter Sunday Mass as Washington’s new archbishop, Cardinal Robert W. McElroy said the Resurrection of ...