The Vatican has been trying for years to debunk the idea that its vaunted archives are full of secrets: it has opened up the files of controversial Second World War-era Pope Pius XII to scholars ...

Find out why places like Vatican Secret Archives, Vatican City to North Sentinel Island, India are the most mysterious and ...

The Vatican Archives Papal Letters Registers on CD-ROM consist of digital image reproductions of the manuscript registers of papal letters housed in the Archivio Segreto Vaticano. The registers ...

Secret Archives of the Vatican have been making their own distinctive brand of what they call ‘transglobal breakbeat dub science’ for a few years now, more recently introducing dubstep and ...

Pius XII last week used his annual Christmas message to expound the Vatican’s views on world politics. This was the first of six wartime Christmases at which Fascist guards have not stood ...

THE whole world expects a step forward,” said John : XXIII as he opened the Second Vatican Council in October 1962. When Pope Paul VI formally closed it last week, church.” he heralded Whateve ...

made up of experts in Belgian history and archives, to begin investigating the life and virtues of King Baudouin, the Vatican said in a communique Saturday. Francis surprised and even enraged some ...

Pope Francis told Vatican bureaucrats on Saturday to stop speaking ill of one another, as he once again used his annual Christmas greetings to admonish the backstabbing and gossiping among his ...