Pope gives a nod to Obama

Vatican investigates Legionaries of Christ

New questions about Legionaries of Christ

Inside America’s drone war, a moral black box

A New Inquisition: The Vatican targets US nuns

Bishops investigating US nuns have poor records on sex abuse cases

Theologian Hans Küng condemns pope’s modern ‘Inquisition’

Benedict, ‘pope of ironies,’ steps down

Predicting the next pope

Days after resignation, new documents shed light on scandal that shadowed Pope Benedict

Legion of Christ documents raise questions of Vatican role in cover-up

Covering the next pope’s election

As pope steps down, disinformation permeates Vatican crackdown on nuns

Vatican’s looming ‘Inquisition’ reveals a fractured Catholic Church

Who is Father Dan Ward?

Mother Tekla: The most powerful woman in Rome

Rome: The media and the conclave  

Survivors endorse church penal centers for abusive priests

Papal conclave date announced

Vatican conclave: Leading candidates for pope represent opposing forces within church leadership

Waiting for the conclave at Santa Maria Maggiore

For a new pope, issues of a global church

Jorge Mario Bergoglio elected pope: White smoke rising in St. Peter’s Square

The significance of Pope Francis, first Jesuit pontiff

Two discordant ‘dirty war’ narratives of Pope Francis continue

Pope Francis focuses on the poor, the media focus on the sex abuse scandal

Pope Francis reaffirms Vatican’s punitive position on US nuns

Pope Francis to meet with head nuns as cardinal criticizes Vatican crackdown

New Orleans’ soulful second line tradition marred by violence

Shooting victim offers forgiveness as Dalai Lama preaches to a wounded New Orleans

The language of shaming: Pope Francis urges profound change to global economic system

Pope Francis, a ringing challenge to the financial system

As church infrastructure shrinks, rebellious Austrian priest to tour US

Banned in Boston: Cardinal O’Malley orders parishes not to let priest speak

Doing the Vatican Bank shuffle

Pope Francis rails against the ‘globalization of indifference’

Parallel lines: Pope responds on bank scandal and clergy sex abuse scandals

Pope decrying ‘anesthesia of the heart’ heads to Brazil

With comments on gay priests, Pope Francis rejects long-held church position on homosexuality

American nuns gather in Florida with a minder in their midst

Pope Francis grants far-ranging interview, opens up about a church in crisis

Catholic elites’ finery flouts Pope Francis’ call for humility

Camus, at 100, a prophet of human rights

Confidant cardinal tells new tales about Pope John Paul’s role in scandal

The Vatican’s questions on family: a window into Pope Francis’s mind

Pope Francis’s progressive statement opens questions on abuse cases, women

Cardinals advise Pope Francis to focus on child sex abuse

New Catholic sex abuse commission to contend with ‘medieval organization’

Hans Küng, influential Catholic dissident, confronts his own mortality

How Pope Francis took 2013 by storm

How a Catholic missionary helped make California cool

Pope Francis appoints clouded figure as financial reformer

Q&A: Thomas Cahill on religious conflict throughout history

Pope Francis makes boldest comments yet on sex abuse crisis

A tale of two saints, John XXIII and John Paul II

Vatican continues attack on American nuns as Pope Francis stands by

Vatican at war with nuns over evolutionary thinking

In Pope Francis’ church of the streets, elitism doesn’t work

Pope Francis and the language of hope

Church sex abuse survivors seek more than an apology from Pope Francis