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For fans of Conclave, there’s quite the inside story of the real thing in 2013 in the Pope’s new autobiography. We find that he arrived at the cardinals’ guest house with two cassocks and a return ticket to Buenos Aires. He was frisked, like the other cardinal electors, for phones,…

Pope Francis’ reveals in his new autobiography titled ‘Hope’ – the second of two books in two years by the pontiff

Pope Francis' autobiography is being released Tuesday

Pope’s appointment of progressive Robert McElroy comes as rightwing Catholics wield notable influence in US capital

Pope Francis has baptised 21 babies in the Sistine Chapel on Sunday under the ceiling frescoed by Michelangelo, in what has become an annual tradition that marks the end of the Christmas holiday period at the Vatican

After the wait of almost a year, the coziest of cozy crime shows returns. Here's how to watch "Father Brown" season 12 online, on TV and from anywhere in the world.

As calls for female ordination grow, the Vatican grapples with its limits

Pope Francis appoints Sister Simona Brambilla as the first woman prefect of a major Vatican office, signaling a historic shift towards gender diversity in ...

A no-holds-barred account of the Vatican’s covert operations – from escape routes for Nazi war criminals to money laundering for the mafia – is revelatory but sometimes too dense for its own good

Christmas revellers around the world donned red and white Santa hats, offered meals to the homeless and lit candles on Wednesday, as Pope Francis launched observation of the global holiday with a sombre mass in the Vatican.

Pope Francis opened the "Holy Door" of St Peter's Basilica on Christmas Eve on Tuesday, launching the Jubilee year of Catholic celebrations set to draw more than 30 million pilgrims to Rome.