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We had mentioned to our parish priest that we planned to visit Italy during our honeymoon and hoped to see the Pope during ...
It is natural to compare a pope to his predecessors. But many of the comparisons being made now betray an ideological edge ...
On the night of his election on March 13, 2013, Pope Francis told the assembled faithful from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica that “tomorrow I wish to go and pray to the Madonna.” And so he did, ...
The pope’s funeral will begin at 10 a.m. on Saturday in front of St. Peter’s Basilica, the Vatican said. The funeral Mass ...
Pope Francis died Easter Monday on April 21, 2025. Here's what we know and what needs to be done to elect a new pope.
Francis died just over a month after his 12th anniversary as pope. He had the ninth longest papacy of the past 200 years.
However, many historians dispute that as impossible to verify, and instead say the longest-serving pope was Pius IX, who held the office just shy of 32 years, until his death in February 1878.
The pope’s funeral will begin at 10 a.m. on Saturday in front of St. Peter’s Basilica, the Vatican said. The funeral Mass ...
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