As it happened: Coffin of Pope Francis sealed after 250,000 pay homage to head of Catholic Church - Pope Francis’s coffin was sealed after a quarter of million people visited the late spiritual leader ...

Around 500 priests and bishops concelebrated the funeral Mass for Cardinal Gioan Baotixita Pham Minh Man at the Pastoral ...

The Duchess of Kent’s funeral will take place at Westminster Cathedral on 16 September, Buckingham Palace has announced. It will be the first Catholic funeral for a royal in modern British history.

The British Royal Family gathered today for a funeral unlike any in modern royal history. Katharine, Duchess of Kent, who died peacefully at age 92 on September 4, 2025 at Kensington Palace, received ...

The late Duchess of Kent became the first member of the royal family to publicly convert to Catholicism since 1685 when she entered the Catholic Church in 1994 Pope Leo sent condolences to Katharine's ...

British Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster speaks to Britain's King Charles III, William, the Prince of Wales, and Kate, the Princess of Wales, following the funeral Mass for the Duchess of Kent ...

The Duchess of Kent's funeral will take place at Westminster Cathedral on 16 September, and the Catholic service will make royal history. It will be the first Catholic funeral staged for a member of ...

Pope Leo XIV recalled the life and legacy of Cardinal in pectore Iuliu Hossu, a Romanian Greek-Catholic bishop, “pastor and martyr of the faith during the communist persecution in Romania,” who was ...

Pope Leo XIV praised the late Duchess of Kent, who joined the Catholic Church in 1994, for her "Christian goodness" and her many years of charity work and care for vulnerable people. His comments came ...

Pope Leo XIV sent his condolences to King Charles and the royal family in a surprise message at the historic funeral of the late Katharine, Duchess of Kent. The Duchess of Kent was laid to rest at ...