Time-honored rituals, drafted and refined over centuries, allow time for mourning and provide order at a dramatic moment of ...

Francis, who lost part of a lung to a respiratory infection in his youth and has been plagued by ailing health recently, last ...

Clint Hill, who was seen in film footage of the assassination scrambling across the back of the presidential limousine, died ...

When a Pope dies, it’s traditionally up to a member of the Vatican called a camerlengo to confirm the death. This ...

They are raw and deeply revealing, encapsulating not just Holliday’s personal trajectory but also the shared history of a ...

Once the pope’s death is confirmed, the papal signet ring, which seals official documents, will be destroyed to signal the ...

Friends and relatives of people who were sent to the Maryland crematory have been left waiting for ashes and answers. Records ...

Hamas has handed over the bodies of four Israeli hostages, said to include a mother and her two children who have long been ...