As Stendhal knew, the reason for art is to make you feel. Do not try to grasp the artwork: allow it to grasp you instead ...

Maria Sacchetti covers immigration for The Washington Post. She previously reported for the Boston Globe, where her reporting led to the release of several immigrants from jail. She investigated ...

Francis has now been entombed at Rome’s Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore. Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re honored the pope’s ability to lead with “an open heart toward everyone” as he conduc ...

Pope Francis, the first pontiff from Latin America, died on Easter Monday at the age of 88, and in accordance with his wishes, has been laid to rest at the Papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major (Santa ...

ROME — The Santa Maria Maggiore basilica, which Pope Francis chose as his final resting place, is a fifth-century church located in the center of Rome that already holds the tombs of seven popes.

He was transported to his final resting place in Basilica de Santa Maria Maggiore ... "He is a role model for all people of this earth, regardless of religion or otherwise.

The hearse carrying the coffin of late Pope Francis arrived at Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica in Rome on April 26, 2025. (Photo by Stefano Costantino / AFP) The Santa Maria Maggiore basilica ...

But Francis will be the first pontiff in more than a century to be buried outside the Vatican, as he requested a “simple” tomb a couple of miles away in the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore ...

The annual Santa Maria Valley Strawberry Festival opened its gates Friday at the Santa Maria Fairpark. Guests enjoyed fair food, rides, games, activities and exhibits. The festival runs through ...

They kindly made their manuscript available to us in advance of publication. Their model consists of three intertwined chains, with the phosphates near the fibre axis, and the bases on the outside.

“I didn’t want to be an activist, but when it’s a battle for facts, journalism is activism,” warns Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa, whose new site Rappler faced attacks from former president of the ...

A 78-year-old Santa Maria man has been named as the motorcyclist who died last week in a Santa Maria crash with an agricultural bus. At 11:15 a.m. April 16, emergency crews responded to the scene ...