Sel Faustina Surabaya

As a showdown with the US looms, Tehran is looking to the Pontiff to intervene -- and is finding a lot of sympathy

Chicago Cardinal Francis George, a defender of Catholic orthodoxy with extensive experience in Rome, was elected Tuesday as president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops

Da Vinci Code fans, get ready. The Vatican is about to release its official chronicle of the last years of the Crusader knights whose power has inflamed the imagination of conspiracy theorists for centuries