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Holy See

Shadows of tourists are cast across a papal crest on the floor

Unsealed records of Pope Pius XII could shed light on Vatican’s turbulent postwar years

Conflict & Justice

Author David Kertzer tells host Marco Werman that historians hope to learn how much the Vatican knew about the persecution and mass murder of European Jews.

Pope Francis sits next to Hindu leader Ndu-Kurukkal SivaSri T. Mahadeva during the Interreligious Encounter in Colombo, Sri Lanka on January 13, 2015.

Pope Francis shows pugnacious side: You’d better not insult my mother

Global Politics
An Iraqi Christian man from Mosul, who fled from violence in northern Iraq, reads a book at the Latin Patriarchate Church in Amman, Jordan, on August 21, 2014.

On Christmas, some of the oldest Christian communities on Earth are on the run

Belief

Pope Francis Gets Hip With His New Ride: a 20-Year-Old Renault

Development & Education

Pope Francis Formally Installed as Pope

Cartoon Slideshow: Benedict Vacates the Vatican

Global Satire

He's no longer Pope. He's now "Roman Pontiff Emeritus" or "Pope Emeritus" for short. And as for his purpose now, the ex-Pontiff said he's "simply a pilgrim beginning the last leg of his pilgrimage on this Earth." But that hasn't stopped the Catholic flock and those outside the flock from asking everything from 'what just […]