Founder of Atelier Lavs, the designer, perfumer, and artist has crafted liturgical vestments for both Pope Benedict and the ...

There have been 266 popes in the Catholic Church's roughly 2,000-year history, which spans three millennia. With the death of Pope Francis, a series of formal events was immediately set into motion to ...

Lying in state at St Peter’s Basilica, Francis’s body is low to the ground without any papal regalia next to his body. While ...

Pope Francis is breaking with tradition when it comes to where he will be laid to rest – choosing a light-filled basilica ...

The sounding of bells, particularly in St Peter’s Square in the Vatican, marks the death of a pope and signals the beginning ...

The death of a Pope triggers a centuries-old ritual involving the destruction of the Fisherman’s Ring, a symbol of papal ...

Pope Francis's passing reminds us yet again of the complete absence of women in the upper echelons of the church. This is ...

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World leaders and people around the globe mourned the spiritual leader who died at the age of 88.

Detailed laws and rituals, some dating back to the Middle Ages, govern the transfer of power from one Pope to the next.

Though Pope Francis never returned to Argentina after becoming the head of the Roman Catholic Church, mourners in his ...

Pope Francis died of a stroke, the Vatican announced hours after the death on Monday of the 88-year-old reformer who inspired ...