During his first visit outside the Vatican, on Saturday evening, Pope Leo XIV stopped at the Basilica of St Mary Major to pray before the icon of Mary Salus Populi Romani and at the tomb of the late ...

Pope Leo also celebrated Mother’s Day as jubilee bands and thousands of pilgrims created a festive atmosphere in St. Peter’s ...

Pope Leo XIV called for a genuine and just peace in Ukraine and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, in his first Sunday noon blessing as pontiff that featured some symbolic gestures suggesting a message ...

Pope Francis’ simple, unadorned tomb had received almost universal praise ... Engraving is an artform, according to designer and calligrapher Paul Shaw, who wrote in an email to the Register ...

Pope Francis' tomb assures a pageantry of pilgrims to his memory, as the scandal-battered Catholic Church seeks high ground ...

He has given a great witness of humility, of closeness to the people, of living out the Gospel values. He has left a great ...

The earthly remains of most of history’s 266 popes (plus some European royals) are buried in Rome—in dozens of catacombs and ...

The new pope began his pontificate in the sign of peace. Today, Good Shepherd Sunday, in front of almost 100,000 people, he ...

More than 250,000 people paid their respects to the pontiff at his funeral in front of St. Peter’s Basilica, the Vatican said ...

I, too, address the world's great powers by repeating the ever-present call: ‘never again war,’” Leo said from the loggia of ...

The sanctuary is run by the religious of the Order of St. Augustine and "houses an ancient image of the Virgin, dear to the ...

St. Paul Outside the Walls and, in a historic first, Rebibbia Prison - visitors find themselves on the side of the Basilica where Pope Francis is buried and directly in line to walk past his tomb.