LONDON: Britain's King Charles III's planned state visit to the Vatican in early April will go ahead despite Pope Francis' ...

Britain's King Charles III's planned state visit to the Vatican in early April will go ahead despite Pope Francis's ...

Britain’s King Charles III’s planned state visit to the Vatican in early April will go ahead despite Pope Francis’s ...

As he enters his 13th year as pope, Francis stands tall as the moral authority in today’s world, a voice pleading for ...

Six other popes are buried in the basilica — Pope Honorius III, Pope Clement VIII, Pope Clement IX, Pope Sixtus V, and St. Pius V — but a pontiff hasn’t been buried in the church since the ...

Cardinals today still have the chance to lobby behind closed doors for their favored candidate during a conclave. The divine inspiration of the Holy Spirit – or these men’s consciences – will ...

But when Pope Francis's time does come ... Seven popes - from Honorious III in 1216 to Clement IX in 1669 - were buried there. In a further break with tradition, new rites issued last year ...

Pope Francis's chosen place of burial is one of the four major papal basilicas. Seven popes - from Honorius III in 1216 to Clement IX in 1669 - were buried there. But most, including Francis's ...

A century later, Pope Alexander III decreed that all the cardinals – with equal representation ... who refused to give up power – and the one elected in September 1378, Clement VII. Two popes, two ...

Maria Clementina Sobieski – one of just three women buried in St Peter’s Basilica – lived a life of extraordinary defiance ...