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

Pope Francis' coffin was interred during his funeral services. Coast Guard to remove 100+ buoys from Maine waters India signs ...

Pope Francis' coffin arrived at his final resting place at the Basilica Di Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, Italy.

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

Pope Francis is not the only Pope to be buried in the Basilica of Saint Mary Major. But he would be the first Pope in 350 ...

Huge crowds were already growing outside the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, where Pope Francis will be buried. The ...

Rome—The Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica, which Pope Francis chose as his final resting place, is a fifth-century church ...

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 image of the Salus populi romani venerated by the Capitoline is increasingly a model for Catholics around the world. Many ...

Only cardinals under the age of 80 are allowed to vote in a papal election. There are currently 135 cardinals eligible to ...