The Drug Enforcement Administration's Rocky Mountain Division detained more than 200 people at an unlicensed nightclub in ...

Pope Francis is breaking with tradition when it comes to where he will be laid to rest – choosing a light-filled basilica ...

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

Crowds of mourners waited in line on Sunday for a chance to visit Pope Francis’ final resting place in the Santa Maria ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

Pope Francis had already made an unexpected decision about his burial place before his death.His Holiness, who passed away at ...

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 ...