In 2023, Pope Francis announced that he would be buried at St. Mary Major; his tomb has been prepared near the Salus Populi Romani icon. While most popes are buried at St. Peter’s in the Vatican, Pope ...

St. Peter’s Basilica, including the Vatican Grottoes (the underground crypt where many popes are buried), currently houses the remains of approximately 91 popes of Rome. This number, which is ...

The appointees of the late Pope Francis, including Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle, are considered resigned from their posts, but ...

With roots stretching back to the fifth century, St. Mary Major (called ... Pope Paul V. Credit: Jastrow, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Though born in Rome, Camillo Borghese may have ...

Around 96, he sent a letter from the Church of Rome to the Church of Corinth, a major city in northeastern Greece and the site of St. Paul's evangelization. This letter, known as Clement's First ...

VATICAN CITY — Early Saturday morning, Pope Francis’ Coffin arrived at St. Mary Major, his final resting place. The faithful began filing out after a solemn funeral mass in honor of Pope Francis.

which drove through Rome, past crowds of people with their hands aloft and chanting “great,” to the papal basilica of St. Mary Major. There, Francis was being buried during a private ceremony ...

Heads of state and royalty will start converging on Rome on Friday for the funeral ... as she had 20 years ago for St. John Paul II. Francis “was the pope of the forgotten, who was close to ...