The 2025 Easter celebrations ... decorate the pulpit and altars. The pink or rose symbolises the dawn of a new day. In Christianity, the rose color signifies Laetare Sunday, the fourth Sunday ...

Grief and tributes for Pope Francis were shared around the world Tuesday, a day after the popular pontiff died at age 88 ...

After years of more and more Americans claiming atheism, agnosticism or “nothing in particular” in religiosity, there are ...

He last appeared in public on Sunday with an Easter blessing and popemobile tour ... the pope was pushed in a wheelchair to the altar from the basilica, not out into the wider crowd.

Pope Francis ‘ funeral has been set for Saturday at 10 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square, and a viewing of his body began today in ...

Francis’ death, a day after he appeared in his wheelchair to bless the faithful in St. Peter’s Square on Easter Sunday ... without particular decoration and with the only inscription ...

This is the extraordinary moment Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky met inside St Peter's Basilica ahead of the Pope’s funeral.

They would be covered with a gold cloth and lie in state on a raised pedestal in front of the altar in St. Peter's Basilica .

President Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine are among the world leaders who plan to attend the funeral. The ...