The death of a pope sets in motion a series of carefully orchestrated rites and rituals well before the conclave to elect his ...

Popular American contemporary worship music collective, Maverick City, has addressed uproar over images of an upside down ...

Carrying the cross means more than bearing personal suffering -- it means stepping into the pain of others and walking beside them, Pope Francis wrote at the start of Holy Week. "To carry the cross of ...

The Pope described this action of carrying the cross as "ambivalent" because the man from Cyrene "was forced to carry the cross: he did not help Jesus out of conviction, but out of coercion." On the ...