Cardinal Rolandas Makrickas, coadjutor archpriest of Rome's Basilica of St. Mary Major, discussed the pope's decision to be ...

Praying for the Virgin Mary’s intercession and being devoted ... In the basilica, behind the main altar, protected by glass, hung the original cloth image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, focusing ...

Pope Francis’ tomb is made of Ligurian (Italian) marble with the sole inscription “FRANCISCUS” and a reproduction of his ...

“Tonight, as we accompany the Virgin Mary to her cathedral ... Chiara and Carlos, above the altar. “We’ll be together again in a few days to open the door to Christ,” Ulrich said during ...

This delicately ornamented sculpture depicts the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus Christ ... suggests that the Wyvern Virgin and Child was most likely intended for a private altar, or another setting in ...

ROME (CNS) -- "The Virgin Mary told me, 'Prepare the tomb.'" That is what Pope Francis said Mary told him when he was discerning whether to be buried in the historic Marian church where his body will ...