The late pontiff's funeral will take place on Saturday, April 26, in St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City following his death ...

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Pope Francis had expressed the desire to be buried in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, a fifth-century church in Rome.

As the Church prepares for a conclave to elect a new pope, tens of thousands of young pilgrims who traveled to Rome for the ...

A hand-written letter from Napoleon denying his role in the kidnapping of Pope Pius VII in 1809 was sold at auction on Sunday ...

ROME — Pope Francis will be the first pontiff in more than a century to be buried outside the Vatican Grottoes. After his ...

The "Pope of the People" chose a church in the center of Rome that holds significance to him throughout his papacy.