Unfortunately, we’ve seen a good deal of the Vatican just lately. I rather liked Pope Francis and, more importantly, so did ...

We're replacing BBC Sounds outside the UK and bringing you BBC.com, a seamless way to read, watch, and listen - all in one place. William Crawley is live in Rome ahead of the most diverse election in ...

Nuns sexually assaulted by priests are one of the last Catholic taboos, but with reports of abuse rising, it is a scandal ...

The voting is highly choreographed and time-consuming to avoid any possibility of fraud or doubt about the results.

After the final commendation, the simple coffin began its slow journey: from St Peter’s, along Via della Conciliazione, ...

It was the mounting rage of citizens in Viterbo, a small town north of Rome, that ended the longest papal election in the ...

As the Italian – and more broadly, Western – clergy loses influence within the Vatican, Italians hope that one of their three ...

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