The church was built in honor of St. Mark ... an elaborate altar piece commissioned in Byzantium by the Venetians. If you look closely at the center gable on the exterior of the basilica, you ...

The abuse took place between 2007 and 2012 in the Pius X Pre-Seminary, which houses altar boys who serve Mass in St Peter's Basilica, sometimes for the pope, and are thinking of becoming priests.

ROME (CNS) -- Imagine being able to explore all of St ... the basilica, and Gian Lorenzo Bernini, who was its official architect and who designed the immense baldachin over the main altar.