Peter and John race to the tomb. John gets there first, but doesn't go inside. Peter, true to his character, pushes past John, who is peering in, and plunges right in.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Monday took an emotional, close-up look at the tomb of Peter, the church's first pontiff, buried beneath St. Peter's Basilica, the Vatican said.

Pope Francis on Monday took an emotional, close-up look at the tomb of Peter, the church’s first pontiff, buried beneath St. Peter’s Basilica, the Vatican said. By doing so, Francis became the ...

In John’s Gospel, Mary Magdalene visits Jesus’ tomb alone, finding the stone removed and Jesus’ body gone. Upset and confused, Mary alerts Peter and the beloved disciple, an unnamed follower ...

Jesus, in the Christian tradition, does not have a burial place because he rose up to Heaven, but for three days he lay in a tomb outside Jerusalem. Recently, some 50 scientists, workers, priests ...

St. Peter headed the Church after Jesus Christ ascended into heaven, and he was martyred under the Roman Emperor Nero in the year 64 on Rome’s Vatican hill.

VATICAN CITY (CNA/EWTN News)—Nobody is “worthy” of the call of Christ, and yet Jesus still calls everybody to him, Archbishop Dennis Schnurr of Cincinnati said at the tomb of St. Peter on ...

Pope Francis on Monday took an emotional, close-up look at the tomb of Peter, the church's first pontiff, buried beneath St. Peter's Basilica, the Vatican said.

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Monday took an emotional, close-up look at the tomb of Peter, the church’s first pontiff, buried beneath St. Peter’s Basilica, the Vatican said.

The 45-minute "visit of devotion to the tomb of St. Peter" was private, the Vatican said, but it later released a video of it. The basilica was built over the location where early Christians would ...