Around 40 people — homeless, prisoners, migrants and transgender people — will salute the pope holding a white rose, just ...

Pope Francis chose his place of burial in St. Mary Major Basilica, near an icon of the Madonna that he revered.

The tomb's architecture and its decorations deepen the modern understanding of funerary practices "in this very ancient and sacred cemetery," says Anna-Latifa Mourad-Cizek, a historian and ...