In fact, the tradition of burying popes in St. Peter’s Basilica dates back to the fourth century. There are churches, and then there is ... Download now for all-access coverage, right at your ...

But choosing St. Peter’s Basilica as a final resting place has a strong tradition, going back to the 4th Century. To date ... the apse is a domed or arched recessed area. "Basilica" then is said to ...

A new pope has officially been elected as white smoke poured from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the great bells of St. Peter's Basilica tolled.

Some 150,000 people lined the streets to bid a final farewell to Pope Francis as his coffin was carried in an open popemobile during a historic procession from St. Peter’s Basilica to the ...

The papal coffin was then ... went from St. Peter’s Basilica, where they were consecrated, to St. John Lateran, to take possession of the papal palace. From the 4th to the 14th century, the ...

In his public appearance as pope, Leo called himself an Augustinian, putting an unusual spotlight on his religious order. It ...

The camerlengo places the Fisherman's Ring on the fourth finger of the pope's right hand, then ... Now fittingly attired in his temporary vestments, the new pope enters St. Peter's Basilica ...

Pope Francis will be buried in Rome's Santa Maria Maggiore, not St. Peter's ... and then cardinal, consistently visited Santa Maria Maggiore, a key papal basilica in Rome. The fourth-century ...

Leo XIV will work to translate the ideal of one heart, one mind into structures that protect the vulnerable worker, the ...

Tasayco added that having seen then-Bishop Robert Prevost ... As he walked through the 17th-century semicircular colonnade that appears to embrace St Peter's square — and that Leo referenced ...

Legend has it that this fourth century church was built after the ... Pope Francis had her brought to St. Peter's Basilica, where he prayed in the rain, standing almost alone in an empty St ...