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Over three days this week, more than 250,000 people stood for hours in line to pay their final respects while Francis’ body ...
celebrated his first Mass in the basilica on Christmas Day in 1538. The basilica is the resting place of seven other popes, but this was the first papal burial outside the Vatican since Pope Leo ...
Though similar ritualized door openings took place on Christmas Eve last year at the ... in Rome — the opening of the Holy Door of the Vatican is marked by a unique ceremony.
Juan Carlos Cruz, who spent birthdays and Christmas with Pope Francis and advised him on clergy sexual abuse in the Catholic ...
celebrated his first Mass in the basilica on Christmas Day in 1538. The basilica is the resting place of seven other popes, but this is the first papal burial outside the Vatican since Pope Leo ...
He made his last public appearance on Easter Sunday — a day before his death — to bless thousands of people in St. Peter’s ...
celebrated his first Mass in the basilica on Christmas Day in 1538. The basilica is the resting place of seven other popes, but this was the first papal burial outside the Vatican since Pope Leo ...