Senior citizens and persons with disabilities (PWDs) begin casting their votes at Cornelia M. de Jesus Memorial Central ...

The three vestments worn by Pope Francis during his visit to the Philippines from January 15 to 19, 2015 were made by ...

Every time Pope Francis came back to Rome after a trip abroad, he made sure to pay a visit to the church ... old crypts. And yet the chapels, mosaics and gilded wood of Santa Maria Maggiore ...

The death of Pope Francis has triggered a period of mourning in the Vatican and signals the start of a millennia-old process ... di Santa Maria Maggiore, a significant Catholic church and papal ...

He heads the Holy See, the central governing body of both Church and the Vatican City State, a country in itself. Within the 2,000-year-old Catholic ... buried in the Santa Maria Maggiore basilica ...

Pope Leo XIV condemned the spectre of a "third world war" in his first Sunday address, addressing international crises just days after becoming the Catholic ... Rome's Santa Maria Maggiore basilica.

Addressing cardinals on Saturday, the 69-year-old Leo called himself ... marble tomb inside Santa Maria Maggiore basilica in the early evening on Saturday. The church was a favourite of Francis ...

The centuries-old rites, however, still involved Catholic pageantry ... for The New York Times The church where Pope Francis is being buried — Santa Maria Maggiore, or St. Mary Major — held ...