VATICAN CITY — Fog that had descended on Rome early this morning, obscuring the cupola of St. Peter’s Basilica, began to slowly lift as pallbearers carried Pope Benedict XVI’s simple cypress coffin ...

THE SCENE. TONIGHT, A SOUTHWEST OR SOUTHWEST BALTIMORE PARISHIONERS ARE RESPONDING TO DEVASTATE NEWS. THEIR CHURCH WILL NO LONGER HOLD MASS AFTER NEARLY A CENTURY OF WORSHIP THERE. NOW THIS COMES AS ...

Under a foggy gray sky on January 5, a historic funeral in St. Peter’s Square saw the sitting pontiff, Pope Francis, preside at a somber and simple ceremony for his predecessor, Emeritus Pope Benedict ...

The funeral mass for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who passed away on Saturday at the age of 95, is being held in Saint Peter's Square, directly in front of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City on ...

Emeritus Pope Benedict “rested well” and participated in a mass yesterday afternoon, the Vatican has said. “At present his condition is stationary,” Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said in a statement ...

BALTIMORE -- The final mass for Saint Benedict Catholic Church will be on Tuesday evening as the Archdiocese of Baltimore announced this month the Southwest Baltimore church is ending its worship ...

In his homily, Archbishop Gänswein said Benedict, ‘one of the greatest and most influential theologians of all time on the Chair of Peter, put himself under the protection of a saint for whom there ...

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI was in stable condition Friday after suffering a decline in his health and participated in a private Mass in his room, the Vatican said, as the faithful in Rome honored ...

With bells tolling, tens of thousands of faithful, political leaders and the pope himself mourned Benedict XVI, the German theologian who made history by resigning from the papacy, at a rare requiem ...

(RNS) — More than 50,000 faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Square to pray for the emeritus pope, a smaller crowd than has attended the most recent papal funerals. VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Under a foggy ...