There have been twelve Greek Popes in the history of the papacy, with Saint Peter considered to be the first Catholic leader.

Francis never changed church doctrine on homosexuality or budged on the question of marriage. But he offered a revolutionary ...

Various factors are at play when it comes to the decision of a burial place for a pope. Pope Francis has chosen the Basilica ...

At All Saints Shrine, there are first-class relics of Teresa of ávila, Thomas More, John Fisher, Padre Pio and Pope Pius X, ...

The funeral Mass will likely be celebrated inside St Peter’s, because of the late winter weather, and there is also the ...

Pope Francis, who passed to his reward on the morning after Easter at age 88, was a version of the liberal pope that many ...

As early as 2015, Pope Francis had expressed the desire to be buried in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, a fifth-century ...

The deceased pope will be dressed in his simple white cassock and red vestments, then placed in a simple wooden coffin. This ...

The cemetery's catacombs date to antiquity ... it restored and updated in varying styles), Mozart composed "Dominicus Mass," which the abbot commissioned in 1769. Not long after, Haydn was ...