The first Mass of the ‘Novendiales’ will be the funeral. Following the death of Pope Francis, the Vatican has announced which ...

Archaeologists in Crete have uncovered a 3,800-year-old Minoan ritual of demolishing tombs and a communal feast.

The death of Pope Francis sets into motion a series of rituals, some of which go back more than 2,000 years, including how to choose the new pope. Here's what happens next.

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re dead ...

Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich led a memorial mass on Wednesday to mourn the death of Pope Francis, in a solemn gathering at Holy Name Cathedral. Hundreds of Catholics, along with interfaith and ...

CNN By Caitlin Danaher, Christopher Lamb, Lauren Kent, Antonia Mortensen, Barbie Latza Nadeau and Sebastian Shukla, CNN Vatican City (CNN) — The body of Pope Francis is lying in state in St. Peter’s ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Thousands of people filed through the central aisle of St. Peter’s Basilica to pay their final respects ...

For decades, Oxford academics at Worcester College drank wine and served chocolates from a silver-rimmed chalice made from ...

Fiends, lovers and the people who knew him best reveal the man behind Johnny Thunders, New York Doll-turned-junkie poster boy ...

Four people were pronounced dead at the scene ... and I saw the helicopter crash and splashing to the water," Cognata told NBC News. He called 911, using Pier 40 as a reference point but saying ...

SAN DIEGO — One woman was killed, and another woman and man were hospitalized after the truck they were in went off the roadway on Harbor Island and into the water Thursday night. Witnesses ...

Commissioner Tisch said most of the passengers were already dead when they were removed from the water, but two passengers were taken to a nearby hospital, where they died soon after.