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

Vatican security removed a man who disrupted St. Peter's Basilica by climbing onto the altar, with Pope Leo reportedly ...

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

A man urinated on the Altar of Confession of St. Peter’s Basilica on Friday before being taken away by security officers in ...

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

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

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

So many mourners lined up to see Pope Francis lying in state in a simple wooden coffin inside St. Peter’s Basilica that the Vatican kept the doors open all night due to higher-than-expected turnout, ...

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

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