DELVING IN THE ROMAN FORUM; Lionel Phillips Buys Buildings Over the Basilica Aemilia for Excavation. SECRET OF TRAJAN'S PILE Foundation of the Column Reveals Remains of a Civilization 100 Years ...

Notre Dame rang the bells at the Basilica Thursday afternoon in celebration of the announcement of a new pope. Father Dowd presided over a special Mass of Thanksgiving for Pope Leo at 5:15 ...

People mourned and gave thanks to Pope Francis at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C.

Pope Francis’s funeral procession will depart from St. Peter’s Basilica, the epicenter of Catholicism, and head toward the Basilica of St. Mary Major, one of Rome’s most important Marian ...

Full order of service for Pope Francis's funeral More than 200,000 people are expected to attend Pope Francis's funeral in St Peter's Square. He will then be buried in Rome's Basilica of Santa ...

Thousands of people poured into St. Peter's Basilica to pay their final respects to Pope Francis, whose body is lying in state for three days ahead of his funeral on Saturday.

Thousands flooded through the walls of Vatican City as a procession of cardinals and pallbearers took the body of the late pontiff into St. Peter's Basilica.

Catholic cardinals on Wednesday performed the ritual ceremony to transfer Pope Francis’ body from his home in the Vatican hotel to St. Peter’s Basilica for three days of public viewing.

The Santa Maria Maggiore basilica, which Pope Francis chose as his final resting place, is a fifth-century church located in the center of Rome that already holds the tombs of seven popes.

The body of Pope Francis was carried in a solemn procession Wednesday from his residence within the walls of the Vatican City to St. Peter's Basilica.

On Saturday, the pope finally returned to the basilica, this time going inside to pray on the vigil of Palm Sunday, which marks the official beginning of Holy Week, and paused to pray before the ...