Francis is well aware that anytime he has gone into the hospital, the plotting has begun for electing the next pope, ...

A newly released memo alludes to eyebrow-raising but unspecified actions by the agency’s former director, who was Catholic.

Discovery of the new documents has also generated new questions about whether similar materials may be gathering dust in the ...

The thousands of documents posted online this week disappointed assassination buffs. But historians are finding many newly ...

The U.S. government this week released thousands more records on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, long a source of fascination and intrigue. This is the final batch of JFK files ...

FILE - Pope Francis waves as he arrives for his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Hall, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Feb.

The Vatican has found itself in an unprecedented financial crisis as of late and according to reports, it was caused by a ...

Eight decades later, Brown University professor David I. Kertzer, PhD’74, has written a book that reveals exactly how deep and damaging those ties were, drawing on materials found in recently opened ...

After five weeks of hospitalization with pneumonia, including moments where he came close to death, Pope Francis is back at home in the Vatican recovering. Now, the attention in the Vatican is on ...

The Apostolic Palace in the Vatican is home to the Holy See’s Secretariat of State, the engine room of the Catholic Church’s central administration. Entering the offices on the third floor of ...