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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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, ...