Church leaders picking the new pope have been getting tips from Hollywood film Conclave. The film shows Cardinal Thomas Lawrence - played by Ralph Fiennes - probing secrets and scandals surrounding ...

French news agency AFP noted the incident represents the Vatican’s second leak scandal in three years. The butler to Pope Benedict XVI, Paolo Gabriele, was convicted in 2012 of stealing the now ...

The conclave to elect Pope Francis‘ successor will start on May 7, the Vatican said on Monday following a closed-door meeting of cardinals at the Vatican, the first since Francis’ funeral on ...

The Vatican has always been scrupulous ... But after a private viewing of Mel Gibson's forthcoming film about the Crucifixion, Pope John Paul II reportedly commented: "It is as it was." ...