Thousands of bones have been unearthed in two ossuaries discovered in the Vatican City, as part of an ongoing search for clues into the disappearance of a 15-year-old girl more than three decades ago.

After being closed for several days, on Sunday, Jan. 8, the Vatican crypt reopened to the public. The coffin of Pope Benedict XVI is prepared for interment in the crypt of St. Peter's Basilica on Jan.

Archbishop Georg Gänswein celebrated Mass at the tomb of St. Peter on Tuesday to mark one month since the death of Pope Benedict XVI. Gänswein, the pope emeritus’ longtime personal secretary, offered ...

Benedict XVI’s funeral and burial in the Vatican crypt took place on the morning of Jan. 5. Before the wooden coffin is closed, Benedict XVI’s personal secretary Archbishop Georg Gänswein and ...

Forensic police swarmed the crypt of a Roman basilica on Monday to exhume the body of a reputed mobster as part of an investigation into one of the Vatican’s most enduring mysteries: the 1983 ...

Benedict XVI was buried in the Vatican on Thursday in a strictly private ceremony. His wooden coffin was placed in the crypt under the central part of St. Peter’s Basilica in the first tomb of St.