Annone, a majestic 4-year-old albino elephant from India, five centuries ago was the pet of Pope Leo X. The white pachyderm ...

From the most anticipated literary debuts to the return of heavyweights like Stephen King and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, there ...

Pope Francis delivered his annual “state of the world” address on Thursday, asking ambassadors to pursue a “diplomacy of hope ...

French Bishop Dominique Rey said he was recently informed by the nuncio, the pope’s ambassador in France, that Pope Francis ...

Sister Simona Brambilla was appointed as the prefect of a Vatican office that oversees religious orders, but she may not be ...

Han Kang’s fiction is always richly evocative and this book, with events taking place in a snowstorm and spurred by a race ...

The book that inspired the Golden Globe-winning adaptation centers on a fictitious election of a new pope — and garnered ...

On Dec. 20, Donald Trump announced his intention to nominate Brian Burch as the next U.S. ambassador to the Vatican. Burch, ...

Conclave screenwriter Peter Straughan grew up in a “devout Catholic household’ and even served as an altar boy as a child. So ...

On the official Oxford University Press website we learn that brain rot is “the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental ...

The bestselling writer says the internet promised to make everybody smarter, and instead it’s made everybody “louder and dumber.” ...