Now Cardinal Re was incensing the altar and an open book of the Gospel was placed on the coffin, its pages fluttering ethereally in a gathering breeze. Though age-old tradition dictated many ...

Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, who is leading the service, opened the mass by incensing the altar as prayers were sung by the faithful in the crowd. He then led a prayer for those in attendance.

The choir chanted Psalms, the Kyrie and the Litany of Saints as Francis’ body was carried down the centre aisle and his coffin placed on a low, wooden catafalque in front of the Altar of the ...

Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA The camerlengo, Cardinal Kevin Farrell, presided over the rite, which included incensing and sprinkling the papal coffin with holy water, the sung proclamation of a ...

Now Cardinal Re was incensing the altar, and an open book of the Gospel was placed on the coffin, its pages fluttering ethereally in a gathering breeze. Though age-old tradition dictated many ...

Perhaps place extra candles on the altar, in front of the ambo ... who are standing in a double-file line, incensing them. Meanwhile, the litany continues until all the incensing is finished.

It was during the 2016 World Youth Day week in Krakow, and I was standing metres away from the Holy Father, who was slowly incensing the open-air altar, golden thurible in hand. There were several ...

‘I hope it’s one of ours,’ the reporter next to me quipped, momentarily puncturing the solemnity. Now Cardinal Re was incensing the altar, and an open book of the Gospel was placed on the coffin, its ...

On Sunday morning, May 18, a Mass for the beginning of the pontificate of Pope Leo XIV will take place in St. Peter's Square ...

Photography by by Marco Furio Magliani The Belgian artist Luc Tuymans has created two major new works for the altar of a 16th-century church on a Venetian island. Tuymans's paintings, entitled ...