A new book suggests Chicago-born Richard Prevost may have been reluctant at first to take on the weighty responsibility of ...

Millions of people around the world were stunned when Pope Leo XIV was elected earlier this year as the first American-born pontiff, but one Vatican correspondent was not. Christopher White was one of ...

Reviews of ‘Catholicism: A Global History From the French Revolution to Pope Francis’ and ‘To Sanctify the World: The Vital Legacy of Vatican II.’ ...

Vatican documents and taped conversations, leaked to Italian journalists and published in two new books, allegedly reveal numerous financial scandals and extravagant expenditures in the Vatican as ...

Books stand in the Palafoxiana library, the oldest public library in the Americas, in Puebla, Mexico, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022. (Credit: Pablo Spencer/AP.) Listen ROME – Reporters who cover the ...

Early in the morning on the Via Veneto, famed for its 1960s “dolce vita” party scene, journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi seeks to defend himself from criticism hailing from a very different part of ...

A new book sets out to examine the current state of Vatican affairs through the lens of the nine-year retirement of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. And it isn't pretty.

The Vatican has confirmed that two Italian journalists—Gianluigi Nuzzi and Emiliano Fittipaldi—who have written books on Vatican finances, which were published last week, ...

VATICAN CITY-- The Vatican has gotten embroiled in a modern-day, secular version of the Index of Banned Books. The Holy See press office had to set the record straight on Friday after the Italian ...

The Vatican's doctrine office, once responsible for the Inquisition, the Index of Prohibited Books and famous for its centuries of secrecy, is reminding scholars that it's actually a fairly ...