We knew we would regret not visiting St. Peter’s Basilica while we were in Rome. It was an amazing experience, and the massive church is absolutely stunning—mind-boggling, really.

Cardinal Robert Prevost elected first North American pontiff and will be called Pope Leo XIV - Pope Leo XIV emerged onto the balcony of St Peter's Basilica where he addressed jubilant crowds ...

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.

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 ...

When Robert Francis Prevost appeared on the loggia of St Peter's Basilica as Pope Leo XIV, he set three precedents. He is the first pope fr ...

From the loggia of St. Peter’s ... century, the conclave has needed between three and 14 ballots to find a pope. John Paul I — the pope who reigned for 33 days in 1978 — was elected on 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 ...

Hundreds of thousands of mourners pack the funeral in St. Peter's Square ... place at the Basilica of St. Mary Major in central Rome. Francis is the first pope in over a century to be buried ...

It's a fitting choice - Francis was especially devoted to the Virgin Mary, and Santa Maria Maggiore was the first church dedicated to her when it was built in the 4th Century. Now that the Pope's ...