An eccentric monk’s singular scrap cathedral reveals the chaos and genius of his mind.

Inside the right-wing romance With Hungary.

Pope Benedict XVI’s post-retirement presence in the Vatican has set the stage for a conflict that threatens to split the Catholic Church into two.

The director of The Exorcist visits the Vatican’s 91-year-old in-house exorcist in Rome.

The first living ex-pope in 600 years watches as the successor he enabled dismantles his legacy.

A profile of Pope Francis.

An interview with Pope Francis.

“Which is the largest country in the world, economically speaking? It’s America, the United States. Do you know why? Because way back—this is history, you can look it up on the Internet—the colonization was done by men who believed in the word of God. And they were tithers. That’s why you see on the dollar bill: ‘In God we trust.”

How mergers between Catholic institutions and secular hospitals are changing the nature of health care.

On the Connecticut priest who dealt methamphetamine from his church and ran a sex ring from his apartment.

The secretive financial behemoth that is the American Catholic Church.