Prince William will attend the funeral on behalf of his father, King Charles III, in keeping with recent tradition. The King, ...

Atop his coffin, the pages of an open gospel ... who created the tomb of Pope Clement XIII, who died in 1769. Two of the most celebrated tombs — those of Paul III and Urban VIII — are on ...

Italians dominated the papacy from 1523 to 1978, when Pope John Paul II from Poland began a streak ... dryly reading a dutiful homily from prepared pages without offering a vision for the future.

REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach “The fluttering of the pages of the Book of Gospels on the pope’s coffin was very special as it also happened during the funeral of Pope John Paul II in 2005 which I ...

All Vatican personnel involved in supporting the upcoming papal conclave will take an oath of secrecy — under penalty of ...

Kai Pfaffenbach, Reuters photographer based in Frankfurt, Germany “The fluttering of the pages of the Book of Gospels on the pope’s coffin was very special as it also happened during the funeral of ...

Pope John Paul’s coffin was placed on a Turkmen carpet ... order of service for Pope Francis’s funeral. The booklet is 87 pages long and has copies of the service in English, Italian and ...

The first was in 2005, when John Paul II passed ... the wind lifting the pages of the Gospel book resting on the pope’s coffin before slamming it shut, and the cardinals’ zucchetti—their ...

Elizabeth II did not attend many funerals, including Pope John Paul II’s funeral in 2005 ... chanted in Greek by patriarchs and priests. The pages of the New Testament placed atop the coffin ...