Cardinal Rolandas Makrickas, coadjutor archpriest of Rome's Basilica of St. Mary Major, discussed the pope's decision to be ...

Pope Francis asked to be buried in St. Mary Major, close to the most important icon of Mary, the Salus Populi Romani.

Here are the key things to know about the funeral of the first Latin American pontiff in the church’s history.

It's very beautiful that he's going back, having concluded his ministry, to the place where it began," Father Patrick Briscoe ...

A viral video from Colombia shows a statue of the Virgin Mary appearing to cry during an Easter service, just days before the ...

ROME — Pope Francis will be the first pontiff in more than a century to be buried outside the Vatican Grottoes. After his ...

The Santa Maria Maggiore basilica, which Pope Francis chose as his final resting place, is a fifth-century church located in ...

The basilica was built on the spot where the Virgin Mary appeared in a dream ... said that he wants to be buried in the Basilica of Saint Mary the Major, and not in St. Peter's Basilica like ...

Pope Francis had earlier said that he wants to be buried not in St Peter's Basilica or its grottoes, where most popes are ...

Cardinals have performed the rite of burial for Pope Francis at his simple tomb inside Rome's St Mary Major Basilica. The ...