More than two months before he died, Pope Francis reflected on death and old age in a preface for an upcoming book — ahead of ...

In Canada, researchers were inspired by the Blackfoot story of the Human Spiderweb to create a collective practice for 300 ...

Death should not be seen as the end of life but as the beginning of eternity, Pope Francis said in words he wrote only days before his final hospitalisation in the preface to a book due to be ...

"Notes to John" is an intimate collection of journal writings from Joan Didion. Listen to an audio clip of the book narrated ...

The death of a pope sets in motion a series of carefully orchestrated rites and rituals well before the conclave to elect his ...

Pope Francis, who died on Monday, revised various rites last year, simplifying the funeral rituals to emphasize his role as a ...

The Oscar-winning film is about the papal selection process. But how accurate is it to real life? Rev. Thomas Reese and ...

Vatican City — The death of a pope starts a centuries-old ritual involving sacred oaths by the cardinals electing a successor ...

Jorge Mario Bergoglio became a pope of many firsts: the first modern pope from outside Europe, the first whose papal name ...

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

This long but substantial drama now on stage in Skokie tells the story of two generations of a family, one in the last days ...