Each May, the Church honors the Blessed Mother. The words of our most recent popes about Our Lady also relate to their focus ...

Bishop Guido Marini, Bishop of the Italian diocese of Tortona and former Master of Pontifical Liturgical Celebrations, said ...

Francis is breaking with recent tradition and will be buried in the St. Mary Major Basilica, where a simple underground tomb ...

Pope Francis will be buried in a simple underground tomb at St. Mary Major Basilica, rather than St. Peter’s Cathedral or its ...

Senior Vatican Cardinal Pietro Parolin led a rosary prayer at the St Mary Major Basilica in Rome on Tuesday evening, honouring the memory of the late Pope Francis. Cardinal Parolin has held the ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis was thankful that he was able to greet throngs of people in St. Peter’s Square on Easter, a day before he died, though he initially had some doubts given his ...

Worshippers have gathered at Sydney’s Saint Mary’s Cathedral to pay tribute to the late Pope Francis on Tuesday morning. Floral tributes were laid outside the church on Monday night following ...

Many mourners attended the Metropolitan Cathedral of ... of the icon of the Virgin Mary Salus Populi Romani and flowers were laid in front of it. Those attending the rosary prayed and sang.

Pope Francis has been remembered as a man of the people with boundless compassion and a “good shepherd” at a mass in Sydney’s St Mary’s Cathedral in the wake of his death. As the Easter ...