Valentina Román Calle, aged 5, in the red and white shirt of the Peruvian national soccer team, sat on her father's shoulders ...

We associate popes with St. Peter's Basilica ... 17th century architect Francesco Borromini. She stands in front of a ...

More than 250,000 people paid their respects to the pontiff at his funeral in front of St ... Peter, a work in the apse of the basilica by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the 17th-century sculptor and ...

There are churches, and then there is St. Peter's Basilica. It isn't just an architectural wonder... It is the beating heart of Christianity. Let's explore the engineering, artistry and magic of ...

that Pope Julius II launched construction on St. Peter’s Basilica when he “laid the first stone” at the site of what would become the church that stands today, “outside the old ...

Pope Francis lies in state in St. Peter’s Basilica ahead of his funeral on ... Francis, the 76-year-old Argentine who became the church's first pontiff from the Americas in March, returns ...

Originally built with humble materials like brick and wood, the old basilica was adorned with ... masters like Michelangelo and Bernini, the current St. Peter’s Basilica is a pinnacle of Renaissance ...

VATICAN CITY — So many mourners lined up to see Pope Francis lying in state in a simple wooden coffin inside St. Peter’s Basilica that ... Sunday of 15-year-old Carlo Acutis, which was ...