Director of the Holy See Press Office Matteo Bruni said the late pope’s body would be transferred to St. Peter’s Basilica this Wednesday—but not for a burial.

Re, 91, had presided at Francis’ funeral, delivering a heartfelt sermon recalling history’s first Latin American pope and the reforming 12-year papacy he oversaw.

Back in 2019 while he was a deacon, Father Peter Heiskell served alongside Pope Francis during a Holy Thursday Mass. Trump administration promises Illinois it will pay to keep carp out of the ...

Celebrating Mass with poor people in the splendor of St. Peter's Basilica, Pope Francis on Sunday denounced those who dismiss poverty as not my business and defined indifference to the needy as a ...

Pope Leo XIV will appear in public again this Sunday in St Peter's Square. From the balcony of St Peter's Basilica, the first pontiff from the United States, former Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV will lead the Regina Coeli prayer from the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica on Sunday, in his second official public appearance since becoming the leader of the ...

It was not prompted by the pope. And no tears poured out when I prayed inside St. Peter’s Basilica. The artwork on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel was awesome, but it left me dry-eyed.