Francis has broken with recent papal tradition by choosing to be buried in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore instead of St ...

Kearney's Roman Catholic pastors, a Carmelite nun and the Kearney Catholic High School principal each saw the late Pope ...

Pope Francis is breaking with tradition when it comes to where he will be laid to rest – choosing a light-filled basilica ...

President Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine are among the world leaders who plan to attend the funeral. The ...

Thousands of people lined up to pray at the Basilica of Saint Mary Major in Rome on Thursday, the location where Pope Francis ...

Pope Francis to be buried in Saint Mary Major church, not Saint Peter's basilica, in a break with tradition and sign of humility.

The decision by Pope Francis to break with tradition and be buried at the Papal Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome rather ...

More than 61,000 people have visited the basilica so far to pay their respects to Pope Francis, who died April 21.

Each year on Aug. 5 the church liturgical calendar commemorates the dedication of St. Mary Major (in Italian, Santa Maria ...

As the night fell on Rome, a long line of mourners — children, nuns, tourists and others — still waited outside the ...

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Maria Pia Caruso travelled to Rome from her hometown in northern Italy after she learned Pope Francis had died at age 88, to ...