Pope Francis will be laid to rest April 26 at Rome’s Basilica of St. Mary Major, in keeping with his final wishes. The decision breaks a 300-year tradition of papal burials at St. Peter’s Basilica in ...

On the night of his election on March 13, 2013, Pope Francis told the assembled faithful from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica that “tomorrow I wish to go and pray to the Madonna.” And so he did, ...

Experience a breathtaking drone journey across the four Papal Basilicas of Rome: St. Peter’s Basilica, St. John Lateran, St.

With St. Peter’s, St. John Lateran, St. Paul Outside the Walls, it is one of four basilicas in Rome granted special status by ...

Pope Clement XIV is also buried in the Basilica of the Twelve Holy Apostles in Rome.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance has met briefly with Pope Francis on Easter Sunday as the pontiff recovers from pneumonia.

The seven Roman churches in the pilgrimage include the four papal basilicas: St. Peter’s Basilica, the Basilica of St. John ...

Alongside the gossip and the gallows humor, the ancient and solemn rituals continue,” Chiara Barzini writes from Italy.

So it is very ancient,' explained Mayor Roberto Gualtieri yesterday in front of the enormous forecourt of the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls (so ... They allowed 'Rome to be Rome,' as ...

Although a papal funeral has traditionally been an elaborate affair, Pope Francis approved plans to make it less complex ...