A man urinated on the Altar of Confession at Vatican City’s St. Peter’s Basilica during morning Holy Mass, stunning hundreds ...

The man climbed the altar and “urinated under the stunned gaze of hundreds of tourists,” according to the Roman newspaper Corriere Della Sera.

After the incident, Pope Leo ordered emergency purification rites "to restore the holiness of the place and ask forgiveness ...

The latest in a series of disturbances at St. Peter’s Basilica prompted swift intervention by plainclothes police when a man ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV, history’s first American pope, vowed Sunday to work for unity so that the Catholic Church becomes a sign of peace in the world, offering a message of communion during an ...

Pope Leo XIV, history’s first American pope, vowed Sunday to work for unity so that the Catholic Church becomes a symbol of peace in the world, offering a message of communion during an inaugural Mass ...

The stunned crowd could only balk as the man was quickly torn away from the altar by “plainclothes police officers” stationed ...

A man urinated on the Altar of Confession during a holy mass at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican on Friday before being ...