Here is the official program of the ceremonies: The funeral mass presided over by the Italian Giovanni Battista Re, the dean of the College of Cardinals, begins. Francis's wooden and zinc coffin ...

Hundreds sat down for the homily, while others tried to fan themselves with the funeral program booklet. With the pope being laid to rest, many Catholics were also starting to look ahead.

Author Joseph Bruchac shares a poem about a bumblebee and how taking the time to listen to the natural world led him to it.

Through poems like “The Willow and the Oak” and “I Missed My Dad’s Funeral,” he recounts facing his father’s homophobia, negotiating love triangles, and finding hope in the open ...

As a Jew reading about Pope Francis’ funeral wishes, the precedent set by Rabban Gamliel immediately came to mind. These two ...

The funeral of Pope Francis, who died on April 21 aged 88, will take place on Saturday. After a multi-lingual mass in St Peter's Square, his coffin will be taken to the Santa Maria Maggiore basilica, ...

The Sentara College of Health Sciences (SCOHS) is discontinuing its nursing and non-nursing degree-granting programs ... Pope Francis' funeral will be held on Saturday at 4 a.m ET in St. Peter's ...

Thousands queued at St. Peter’s Basilica to pay respects to Pope Francis, who will lie in state for three days ahead of his funeral Saturday. Pilgrims who travelled across the world wept ...

At the University of Minnesota, medical school students have been using a virtual reality experience to understand the perspective of a woman dealing with the advanced stages of Alzheimer’s.

Arts Open San Pedro, Chanel's CalArts collaboration, a staged reading fundraiser for reproductive justice and more arts ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — World dignitaries and Catholic faithful attended Pope Francis’ funeral in St. Peter’s Square on Saturday. Despite the presence of presidents and princes, prisoners and ...