(Photo: Mossot/Wikimedia Commons) The Vatican announced October 21 the publishing date and title of Pope Francis's new encyclical, "Dilexit Nos" (“He Loved Us”), an encyclical on the human and ...

La Croix: The pope is about to publish an encyclical on the Sacred Heart. What is this devotion about? Father Etienne Kern: The devotion to the Sacred Heart is a spirituality entirely focused on ...

I'm a historian of the medieval papacy and editor of the forthcoming three volumes of the Cambridge History of the Papacy. So ...

Papal elections aren't always as dramatic as "Conclave," a new film starring Ralph Fiennes, but the history behind the ...

In the film “Conclave,” the costume designer Lisy Christl clothed an army of catty cardinals, from their miters down to their ...

Pope's bread and butter ... I thought Kerr was gonna — I don't know, I thought he was gonna start ripping his clothes off he was so excited." Noah, who starred at Harlan County High and left ...

UFOs are now being treated as a defense and national security issue, discussed in the United States Congress, and attracting attention from the Head of NASA,” says former U.K. Ministry of Defense UFO ...

Last December, the Pope approved same-sex blessings on the condition that they were not given at the same time as a civil union or by priests using rituals and clothing that might suggest a marriage.

Last December, the Pope approved same-sex blessings on the condition that they were not given at the same time as a civil union or by priests using rituals and clothing that might suggest a marriage.

Peter's Basilica. But given that the Vatican doesn't really do Hollywood, one wonders how the filmmakers were able to capture the nuanced details − from elaborate clothing to Latinate voting ...