The survival of the papacy has always been dependent on a precarious balancing act between the pope’s religious and secular ...

On the evening of February 11, 1858, a 14-year-old girl named Bernadette Soubrious went to gather firewood near her home in Lourdes, a small market town in southwestern France. She ...

The Catholic Church is almost 2,000 years old, and over the centuries, the protocol for papal funerals has been codified and ...