The earthly remains of most of history’s 266 popes (plus some European royals) are buried in Rome—in dozens of catacombs and ...

About 90 popes are buried in St. Peter’s Basilica (21 in the Vatican grottoes), 22 in St ... popes up to the fifth century are buried in the catacombs or some surface monuments.

In 1887, during a pilgrimage to Rome, Thérèse Martin — now known around the world as St. Thérèse of Lisieux — visited the ...

Pope Leo XIV's election marks a historic moment: the first pope from an English-speaking country, and the first from the ...

(photo: Daniel Ibañez/CNA / EWTN) Andrea Gagliarducci/CNA Vatican April 23 ... first popes up to the fifth century are buried in the catacombs or some surface monuments. Leo I the Great is ...

Francis’ papacy honored Latin American Catholics killed for their social justice work, a theologian explains – and Leo may ...

As Cardinals concluded the con­clave to produce a new Pope in majesty of Sistine Chapel, Travel and Hospitality brings ten pieces of information about the Vatican City; the headquarters of the Ro­man ...

Drury Lane uses a mostly stark stage to immerse the audience into a world of shadows in the Vatican catacombs, marble and gold adorned altars and jet-setting adventures across the London and Paris ...

After Vatican II in the late 1960s ... every Catholic in the world had grown up with to the modern equivalent of catacombs — to church basements, hotel rooms and schismatic chapels.