The Vatican

A book-length interview with Archbishop Sergio Pagano divulging the unknown is to be published

They may be known mostly for their uniforms, but they are experts in marksmanship, karate and judo

But it’s not only about celebrities, “I held a course for women in jail on how to make perfumes; we sold them in some of Torino’s exclusive profumerie. This project moved me deeply because inmates aren’t allowed to wear perfume....

It's hard to reconcile the benign-seeming sentiments about respect and sensitivity that the Catholic Church espouses with a position that regards the relationships of "persons with homosexual inclinations" as "sinful." The Vatican's lofty blather notwithstanding, its position is just a...

What exactly is the role of the papacy? Ostensibly the pope is the spiritual head of the church. More realistically, we should conclude that it is a political office. Encyclicals have always functioned not only as spiritual guidance, but as...