The Joachite dual-antichrist theory was immensely popular during the Middle Ages, and the anxieties that were raised over the possibility of a pope being equated with the False Prophet of the ...

Many complaints about Pope Francis: he would not have the good look of John XXIII, indeed his glances frosty; he would not have the subtle reasoning and prudence of Paul VI, indeed his “exits” put in ...

Pope Francis warns against sovereignism: “It leads to war” In an interview, the pontiff says: «Europe shall not break apart, it must be saved, it has human and Christian roots». «Ursula von der Leyen ...

A tiara for every Pope The President of the Assembly of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Trajko Veljanoski, has presented Pope Francis with a tiara. Benedict XVI and John Paul II before him, ...

“The Vatican is like us Americans. A Global Power able to Influence the World” Dispatches sent to Washington before Bergoglio settled in. The first evaluations on the Pope: He is a conservative; He ...

Church and racial laws: from the words of Pius XI to those of Schuster Eighty years ago the persecutory fascist legislation that struck the Jews. There were no official convictions, the strongest ...

• Interior, handling political policing: arrests, interrogations, torture. • Economy, imposing taxes and fines on everything—from merchants and small business owners to displaced families pitching a ...

Scicluna: the Pope’s 2016 legal ruling gives greater scope to remove bishops than a tribunal The Archbishop of Malta says the Motu Proprio “Come una madre amorevole” provides a procedure to dismiss ...

Vatileaks, the Vatican “expense report” for the Orlandi kidnapping The Italian newspapersRepubblica andCorriere della Sera publish a document that appears drafted as “fake”, reporting almost half a ...

Sister Margherita Marin, the nun who found John Paul I dead, “There were three sheets of paper, I remember a Gospel quotation” ...

Heralds of the Gospel, the founder leaves while the Vatican investigates João Scognamiglio Clá Dias, 77, Superior General resigns but continues to be "father” of the institute. The Congregation for ...

The Tears Returning to 2nd February 1995, it was at 4:20 pm that the five year old Jessica Gregori first witnessed tears of blood streaming from the left eye down to the heart of the Madonna in the ...