Pope Leo XIV is, in another first for a pontiff, a member — and prior general — of the Order of Saint Augustine, which was ...

Sexual predators, crooked financiers, spies and a spattering of murderers: while the Vatican may appear an earthly garden ...

the Vatican is the city-state governed by the Holy See where the pope, heir to the throne of Peter, exerts his power. The smallest state in the world, it is made up of the Curia -- the government ...