Above, a pool of blue light from a stained-glass window illuminates a balcony where the St. Mary of the Assumption Church ...

Another photo, decorated with flowers and candles, was placed next to the altar inside the church. The altar for the special requiem mass also held a special connection with the late pontiff—it ...

(AP Photo/Giovanna Dell’Orto) After last Sunday’s worship, the altar table and Easter lilies ... about offering these healing practices inside a church — a large space with light flooding ...

Antoinette Nuzzo stepped inside the sanctuary earlier this week ... The front of the sanctuary where Prevost first served the Catholic Church as an altar boy was covered with two pink and orange ...

Antoinette Nuzzo stepped inside the sanctuary earlier this week ... The front of the sanctuary where Prevost first served the Catholic Church as an altar boy was covered with two pink and orange ...

(Photo by Handout / VATICAN MEDIA / AFP) Cardinals choosing the next leader of the global Catholic Church were locked into the Vatican ... oath of secrecy before each cardinal approached the altar to ...

Pope Leo XIV, in his inaugural Mass, cast a vision of a united church that offers God's unconditional love to everyone. He ...

Thousands of people paid their respects as the pontiff's body lay in state inside ... the Catholic church, for three days of public viewing. His coffin was placed in front of the Altar of the ...

Tens of thousands of people flocked to the Vatican for the funeral of Pope Francis. The beloved pontiff, the first Latin American pope in history, died earlier this week at the age of 88.

ROME — Pope Francis was buried inside his favorite Rome church after ... in Rome. AFP PHOTO / VATICAN MEDIA Francis had asked that the tomb, located near the altar of Saint Francis, be simple ...

Francis’ coffin is inside St. Mary Major Basilica Pope Francis’ coffin ... and four children lay white roses at the altar of the chapel that contains the icon. The pallbearers then continued with the ...