The Vatican Secret Archive, formally known as the Apostolic Archive, has long fueled speculation that sacred artifacts linked ...

The Vatican holds one of the largest historical collections in existence. These collections contain documents that most people will never see and that only a small group of scholars can access and ...

Reaching back to through the Vatican's history, there are some less-than-holy stains. Setting aside conspiracy theories and abuse scandals you've definitely heard about, there are plenty of pretty ...

Secrets, scandal, money, power and abuse -- and the Vatican. In a new special airing tonight on PBS’s Frontline, producer Antony Thomas takes a deep dive into the scandals that have rocked the church.

ROME — Secret negotiations between Heinrich Himmler — the “architect” of the Holocaust — and a Swiss Catholic politician, hired by a Jewish woman and helped by an Italian papal nuncio, may have ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Defense lawyers in the Vatican’s “trial of the century” argued Tuesday that Pope Francis inadvertently violated the fundamental rights of their clients by issuing four secret ...

Pope Benedict XVI has claimed that he's resigning the papacy next week because of old age. But according to the major Italian newspaper La Repubblica, the real reason he resigned is because he did not ...