Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re eulogized Pope Francis at his funeral, calling him "a pope among the people, with an open heart ...

It is perhaps a unique interest that I have, but I love to read epitaphs.  You know, those carefully, well sometimes ...

Around 40 people — homeless, prisoners, migrants and transgender people — will salute the pope holding a white rose, just ...

The earthly remains of most of history’s 266 popes (plus some European royals) are buried in Rome—in dozens of catacombs and ...

On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. They found the stone rolled ...

It was extensively looted by tomb robbers in antiquity, and so now no grave goods, sarcophagus, nor mummy remains. But what survives hints at its lost splendor. "I think it would have been a very ...

Various seals are impressed on the coffin, and it is placed inside the tomb. Francis has said he wants to be buried ...

Sunday, April 20, is the Resurrection of the Lord. Mass readings: Acts 10:34a, 37-43; Psalm 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23; Colossians ...

Archaeologists say new findings from one of Christianity’s holiest sites align with descriptions in the Gospels long ...

Buried deep in one of my photo albums is a picture of me and my brothers sometime in the early 1970s standing in starched, itchy clothes holding Easter baskets.

N. Narrator. + Christ. S. Speaker or speakers other than Christ.N. At that time: Jesus went out with his disciples across the ...

A new map created by theologian John Walsh traces the final moments of Jesus’ life, combining biblical accounts and ...