With Edward Berger’s papal election thriller “Conclave” hitting theaters in wide release, it’s a chance to consider all the ...

I just remembered why that Vatican document calling for global government ... I used to put a lot of stock in his book about exorcism, but now I think it’s simply impossible to know which ...

But Belgians weren't the only victims. From 1950 to 1970, the Vatican sent 3,500 Italian children to America on something called an orphan visa. The trouble was most were not orphans. Like their ...

The Vatican's doctrinal czar on Oct. 2 closed the door — for now — on women deacons. Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández told synod members that the possibility of restoring the female ...

Uninvited guests In 1869, when Pope Pius IX convened the First Vatican Council, no one dreamed of inviting women, but they were nonetheless there. Vatican I was the first churchwide meeting of ...

To celebrate the release of Exorcist II: The Heretic – out now on Blu-ray from Arrow Video – we have a copy up for grabs!

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The Sunday after her confirmation, when young people raised Catholic are supposed to embrace their faith for themselves, Ellie Hidalgo’s niece begged her parents to not ...

Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, followed by Monaco, Nauru, Tuvalu and San Marino, in that order. Vatican City is around 0.17 square miles and the smallest fully independent ...

Critics argue the pact legitimizes China’s control over church affairs, while defenders say it helps support Catholics faithful to the Vatican in the Communist country. By Elisabetta Povoledo ...

The Vatican Bank has fired two employees whose recent wedding violates a newly-introduced ban on marriages between staff. In a statement published Wednesday, the Institute for the Works of ...

Carol E. Harrison is Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. She is currently a Guggenheim Fellow and the Millicent Mercer Johnsen / National Endowment for the Humanities Rome ...