Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wartime Pope Pius XII knew details about the Nazi attempt to exterminate Jews in the Holocaust as early as 1942, according to a ...

The newly discovered letter, written by a German Jesuit to Pope Pius XII’s personal secretary, suggests that the pope knew of Hitler’s atrocities but chose to remain silent. By Elisabetta Povoledo The ...

More than 100 cardinals from around the world are expected to enter the Sistine Chapel Monday to begin voting for a successor to Pope John Paul II. Secrecy is a major concern, with technicians ...

The drama is called Der Stellvertreter, a title that has been translated as The Representative or The Deputy, hut is perhaps best rendered as The Vicar—in echo of the title Vicar of Christ on Earth, ...