With great joy. We were only expecting an apostolic exhortation, but it seems that Pope Francis wants to summarize the spirit of his pontificate by writing an encyclical, invoking the highest ...

(Photo: Mossot/Wikimedia Commons) The Vatican announced October 21 the publishing date and title of Pope Francis's new encyclical, "Dilexit Nos" (“He Loved Us”), an encyclical on the human and ...

The relic dispayed just above the tomb of St. Peter will be accessible for public viewing until Dec. 8, the solemnity of the ...

Ayral, author of the best-selling book Revelations, said it precisely: dire prophecies from Heaven are not Divine decrees ...

Twice in past years, I hopped a flight to Rome in order to cover one of the most arcane, storied and secretive events in human history: the election of a new pope. That event is also known as a ...

The pope has died unexpectedly in his quarters, and the Sacred College of Cardinals will now hold a conclave to determine his successor. The conclave will be overseen by Cardinal Lawrence ...

The encyclical quotes Pope Benedict XVI, who said ... of making acts of reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, writing that “reparation entails the desire to render compensation” for ...

Based on a bestselling novel by Robert Harris, the Oscar-tipped film imagines what goes on behind the scenes of the secretive process – complete with scheming, smearing and leaking.

Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) is charged with stewarding the conclave after the death of the pope — a job he is reluctant to tackle. The white smoke can only go up when one of the cardinals ...