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

Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, archpriest of St. Peter’s Basilica and vicar general of the pope for Vatican City, presided Oct. 13 ...

The incident occurred in full view of a large crowd, with footage circulating widely online of a man with his trousers around ...

The unidentified man circumvented barriers that surround the altar, climbed the steps and urinated on the holy structure ...

Pope Leo XIV is said to have been appalled after a man urinated on the high altar at St Peter’s Basilica. The American ...

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

Cardinal Mauro Gambetti presided over a penitential rite of reparation at the main altar of St. Peter’s Basilica following a ...

Viral footage sees an unnamed man urinating on the Vatican's Altar of Confession before being escorted out of St. Peter’s ...

A man reportedly urinated on the Altar of Confession at St. Peter’s Basilica on Friday before security removed him from the ...

Hundreds of worshippers were left horrified on Friday morning after a man brazenly urinated on the Altar of Confession inside ...

A video has been widely shared showing a man urinating on an altar in St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City. The video shows a ...