Images of artwork created by a disgraced celebrity cleric accused of serial sexual and other abuse have disappeared from ...

For the Most Recent in 'The Best in Catholic Blogging' click on BigPulpit.com. Tito Edwards Tito Edwards manages Catholic websites for the new evangelization that Pope John Paul II and then Pope ...

This combination of images show books and aisle from the Vatican's secret archives. — Identiv/File What can be found in the secret archives? Notes from the trial against the 17th-century ...

Now the Vatican is taking the extraordinary step of opening part of its secret archives ahead of schedule, in a bid to silence attacks against a man it is considering for sainthood. Starting ...

The Vatican Archives Papal Letters Registers on CD-ROM consist of digital image reproductions of the manuscript registers of papal letters housed in the Archivio Segreto Vaticano. The registers ...

Behind the glass, alongside a crucifix and a photograph of Pope Francis, a flatscreen presents live images from security ... one of the Vatican gateways, and would return it shortly before midnight.

The Vatican has released images of Pope Francis being laid out in an open coffin ahead of the Confirmation of the Death of the Pontiff ceremony. His Holiness died Monday after suffering a stroke ...

Getty Images The miter is the ceremonial ... A second copy will be kept for the Vatican archives. Pope’s are traditionally laid to rest with a rosary, and Francis will be no exception.

A former Vatican employee has been arrested after police say he stole a 391-year-old manuscript from an archive ... met with the former employee. open image in gallery A former employee for ...