Roberto Zárate labored as a boy in the cotton fields of Texas but became the first person in his family to attend college and ...

Pope Francis has chosen the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome as his final resting place, a decision rooted in his deep devotion to Mary.

The last pope buried outside the Vatican was Leo XIII in 1903. Francis’s will stipulated a simple burial "in the earth, without particular decoration", marked only with his papal name in Latin: ...

On the morning of the Resurrection, Mary Magdalene and other women were the first to arrive at the tomb and the first to witness the risen Christ (see John 20:11-18 and Matthew 28:1-10 ).

Pope Francis is not the only Pope to be buried in the Basilica of Saint Mary Major. But he would be the first Pope in 350 ...

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The pontiff, who died on Easter Monday aged 88, had a special relationship with the church, and landed on it as his final ...