Like many inner-city Catholic parishes that date back a century or more, attendance had been dwindling over the past few decades.

He last appeared in public on Sunday with an Easter blessing and popemobile tour through a cheering crowd in St. Peter's Square. Church officials also shared some details about the pope's final ...

So many mourners lined up to see Pope Francis lying in state in a simple wooden coffin inside St. Peter’s Basilica that the ... the first-day mourners was a church group of 14-year-olds from ...