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

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

A man climbed onto the central altar at St Peter s Basilica in Vatican City on Friday and urinated in full view of tourists ...

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

According to a report by the New York Post, the shocking act occurred around 9 am inside the basilica when the unidentified man scaled the steps of the sacred altar, where the sitting Pope ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass on Sunday near the tomb of St. Peter, hours before he was to deliver his first Sunday noon blessing from the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica. VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo ...

Hundreds of thousands of the faithful gathered in St. Peter's Square on Sunday to pay homage to Pope Francis on the second of nine days the Vatican has set aside to mourn the beloved pontiff, who was ...

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican unveiled the largest and most luxurious of the pagan tombs in the necropolis under St. Peter's Basilica on Tuesday after nearly a year of restoration work. A family of ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV celebrated a private Mass on Sunday near the tomb of St. Peter, before he was to deliver his first Sunday noon blessing from the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica. The ...