CATHOLICS THE WORLD OVER were praying for Pope John Paul last night as he fought what could be his final battle and was given last rites. As word of the 84-year-old pontiff's worsening condition ...

AUSTIN, Texas – A Roman Catholic priest has been arrested on a misdemeanor assault charge after he was accused of groping a woman in home hospice care while giving her last rites. The Rev ...

(Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia received last rites from a Catholic priest at the Texas ranch where he died, Elizabeth O'Hara, a spokeswoman for the Diocese of El Paso, said ...

In another last year, 79.4 per cent of Spaniards defined themselves as Catholics. For Italy, the figure is 87.8 per cent, according to a poll last January.

When And How The Last Rites Will Take Place? Pope Francis will be buried in the Basilica of Saint Mary Major in Rome. This makes him the first Pope in more than a century to be buried outside the ...

An Austin Catholic priest has been accused of groping a seriously ill woman while he was administering her last rites. Rev. Gerold Langsch, 75, was charged with assault by contact last Thursday for an ...

A 75-year-old Catholic priest in Texas is accused of groping a woman while giving her last rites at her home. The Austin resident was in hospice care for complications from diabetes in October ...

A Catholic Bishop in the US state of Illinois has said that same-sex spouses should be denied communion, last rites and funeral rites. Bishop Thomas Paprocki, who oversees the Springfield diocese, ...

Jennifer Michael Hecht, French Scientific Materialism and the Liturgy of Death: The Invention of a Secular Version of Catholic Last Rites (1876-1914), French Historical Studies, Vol. 20, No. 4 (Autumn ...