Here are the key things to know about the funeral of the first Latin American pontiff in the church’s history.

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A climate in which science, art, and culture flourished in the Golden Age of Islam and the conditions that foretold the Age’s ...

Right then. Memoirs, eh? Some blighter thinks his own piffle is worth the ink. Life, it seems, this grand outward shuffle from the nursery puddle to the ...

With all his soul, the pope wished to rescue the face of Russia's "mad holiness", that of its monks and pilgrims, its great artists and musicians, its writers capable of opening horizons of true ...

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The cardinals set the funeral for Saturday at 10 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square, to be celebrated by the dean of the College of ...

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The museum’s collection and mission are rooted in the rich, diverse sights, sounds, sensations, and stories of Arab American culture and heritage.