Said to be introduced in Kochi and neighbouring areas by St Francis Xavier in the 1500s, Devostha is performed by men in open spaces close to midnight during Lent. In Fort Vypeen, its Portuguese ...

Major Archbishop of the Syro-Malabar Church, Raphael Thattil ... president Cardinal Baselios Cleemis said Pope Francis deeply respected Indian culture and identity. "I have personally witnessed ...

St. Francis was accepted into the church by the bishop as an advocate of the poor and went on to found a religious order that’s still active globally today, the Franciscans. For Assisi’s ...

Pope Francis sought to make the church more welcoming, global and collegial, after his predecessors adopted more doctrinaire ...

Kochi: With the funeral mass of Pope Francis set to be held at 1.30pm IST on Saturday in Vatican, Syro-Malabar Church will celebrate Holy Mass in all churches and ecclesial institutions that day.

Although he wound up skipping the festival, the tango always ran deep within Pope Francis. In 2014, thousands of Catholics gathered in St. Peter ... a “synodal” church: one based on ...

Jorge Mario Bergoglio became a pope of many firsts: the first modern pope from outside Europe, the first whose papal name ...

When he was elevated to the papacy in 2013, Pope Francis was widely expected to shake up the Catholic Church, to liberals ... for Pope Francis at mass in St Peter’s Square on March 9, following ...

JUPITER, Fla. (CBS12) — Members of St Peter Catholic Church in Jupiter come together Monday evening hours after the heartbreaking death of Pope Francis. Francis who was the first Latin American ...

"His Holiness truly embodied the spirit of St. Francis of Assisi, humbly giving of himself to the poor, the Church and Catholics in all corners of the world." Senate Majority Leader John Thune ...

Pope Francis ... during which rule of the church is the responsibility of the College of Cardinals. Vatican Pool//Getty Images Pope Francis opens the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica in ...