Pope Francis has a deep devotion to the Virgin Mary and always prays at the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore before leaving ...

Senior Vatican Cardinal Pietro Parolin led a rosary prayer at the St Mary Major Basilica in Rome on Tuesday evening, ...

With St. Peter’s, St. John Lateran, St. Paul Outside the Walls, it is one of four basilicas in Rome granted special status by ...

In accordance with his personal wishes, Pope Francis will not be buried in the Vatican grottoes but instead at the Basilica ...

Bells rang out as the Pope's coffin was carried across St Peter's Square to lie in state ahead of the funeral on Saturday.

In a break from tradition and by his prior request, the pope will be laid to rest in Rome's St. Mary Major Basilica instead of in the crypt of St. Peter's Basilica, where many of pope's predecessors ...

On the night of his election on March 13, 2013, Pope Francis told the assembled faithful from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica that “tomorrow I wish to go and pray to the Madonna.” And so he did, ...

Black ribbons and half-roundels adorned the outside of St. Mary’s Basilica in downtown Phoenix and its adjacent courtyard ...

The Diocese of Fall River will celebrate a Memorial Mass in honor of Pope Francis next week at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

A special memorial service for Pope Francis will be held at St. Louis Cathedral on Wednesday. The memorial begins at noon.

The College of Cardinals met in the Vatican’s Synod Hall on Tuesday and confirmed the funeral would take place at 10am (6pm ...