Heritage Images/GettyImages The first Saint Peter’s Basilica was built on the ... The baldacchino, the swirly-columned arch over the basilica’s high altar, was designed by the famed Baroque ...

Vatican City — Thousands of people began filing through St. Peter's Basilica to pay their final ... made their way to the 16th century basilica's main altar where Francis' open wooden casket ...

pass through Santa Marta Square and the Square of the Roman Protomartyrs before reaching St. Peter’s Square and entering the Vatican Basilica. At the Altar of the Confession, Farrell will ...

Ordinary faithful filled St. Peter’s Square to watch the procession ... Instead, it will just be placed on the main altar of the 16th-century basilica, simply facing the pews.

Roman Catholic cardinals attended a public mass in St. Peter's Basilica just a few hours before ... opening proceedings by swinging a thurible around the altar and blessing a statue of the Holy ...

Watch Pope Leo XIV address crowds from the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica in his first appearance as the new Catholic leader.

Leo accepted Zubik’s resignation June 4. The outgoing bishop turned 75 — the usual age of retirement — last September.

Earlier, the bells of St. Peter’s tolled as his body was transferred ... was just placed on an inclined ramp the main altar of the 16th-century basilica, facing the pews, with four Swiss Guards ...

Pope Leo XIV officially opened his pontificate as history’s first American pope on Sunday, presiding over an inaugural Mass ...