One thing that would distinguish a funeral for Benedict from that of the reigning pope is the nine days of funeral rites before burial, called the "novemdiales," presumably would not take place ...

One of the ten themes that emerged from the Synod last year and entrusted by Pope Francis to a small working group concerns relations between the Eastern Catholic Churches and Latin Churches. A report ...

These rites are the descendants of the liturgical practices that originated in centers of Rome, Antioch, and Alexandria. Each will be discussed in turn. LATIN. The Pope has several titles.

In the fifth century, Pope Innocent I answered a series of questions concerning ... The Sacrament of Unction is not the 'last rites' as is sometimes thought; the ritual of the anointing itself in no ...

His successor administered the last rites on Friday, on the eve of the ... not to take part in the Papal conclave, which elected Pope Francis. The Herald, in 2015, suggested that Cardinal O ...

Of the giant wrongs to which they have been subjected for the last ten centuries,—the huge ... when they were compelled to present publicly to every new Pope a Bible; when they were obliged ...

Born in Wigan, Sir Patrick was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II and also received a Papal knighthood from Pope John Paul II ...

But the religion sits alongside a panoply of local beliefs, customs and rites -- some of which ... about 3,000 deaths in over the last 20 years. The pope urged his flock to tackle such social ...

More than 2 million pilgrims were gathered to perform initial rites of the hajj ... and the last tribal capital before the Muscogee people were forcibly removed from the Southeast to Oklahoma on […] ...

Tiziana Fabi, AFP But the religion sits alongside a panoply of local beliefs, customs and rites -- some of which ... 3,000 deaths in over the last 20 years. The pope urged his flock to tackle ...

But the religion sits alongside a panoply of local beliefs, customs and rites -- some of which spark bloody zeal ... Australian researchers have estimated about 3,000 deaths in over the last 20 years.