Even in death, Pope Francis remained a trailblazer — becoming the only pontiff to open, but not close, the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica in what has become a fateful symbol of his papal ...

But many of them also used symbols of monarchy ... Third, when Francis first addressed the crowd in St. Peter’s, he described himself as the new bishop of Rome. In Catholicism, the pope holds ...

Pope Francis stands at the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican ... including their use of symbols. When Pope Francis first appeared on that balcony in 2013, he used and ...

This third-century funerary stele found near St. Peter’s is dedicated to Licinia Amias. Marking a transitional era, it contains a mixture of pagan text and the Christian symbol of the fish.

With those words, one of the most enduring symbols in Christendom, the keys of St. Peter, was created, and the story of the papacy was born. When the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church ...

The Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham in Houston is the beating heart of the Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter. Surrounded by rows of white stone columns, the front of the cathedral is ...