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Ralph Fiennes as Cardinal Thomas Lawrence in the film Conclave.

Who will be the next pope?

The release of the film Conclave has once again thrown the spotlight on one of the most arcane, storied and secretive events in human history: the election of a new pope.

  • Rob Harris

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Sister Simona Brambilla in 2019.

Francis names the first woman to head a major Vatican office. Then gives her a male co-leader

Italian nun Sister Simona Brambilla will be responsible for every religious order, from Jesuit and Franciscan priests to the Mercy nuns and smaller movements.

  • Nicole Winfield
Pope Francis opens the Holy Door to mark the opening of the 2025 Catholic Holy Year, or Jubilee, in St Peter’s Basilica, at the Vatican on Christmas Eve.

Pope opens new Jubilee year when pilgrims can obtain special indulgences

Some 32 million tourists are expected to walk through the “Holy Door” just opened by Francis at St Peter’s. He’s asked all to have courage to better the world.

  • Joshua McElwee
Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican in Rome.

Has Mary Magdalene finally been found in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel?

The famous female disciple of Jesus may have been identified among 300 tangled figures depicted in the Sistine Chapel masterpiece.

  • Josephine McKenna
An Iraqi security officer follows the prayer session led by Pope Francis for the victims of war at Hosh al-Bieaa Church Square, Mosul, Iraq, in 2021.

Assassination plot: Pope reveals British intelligence saved his life

Francis turned 88 on Tuesday and marked the occasion with revelations of a twin suicide bomb plot against him.

1C: Close up of the right breast shows nipple retraction, fissural defects especially of the upper and medial areola (circle). At the upper medial quadrant (one star) and towards the axilla (two stars) small bulging lumps are seen.

Michelangelo ‘painted a woman’s breast cancer’ in the Sistine Chapel

The naked woman was brought to life by the Renaissance figure in his iconic fresco, known as The Flood, painted between 1508 and 1512.

  • Josephine McKenna
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Pope Francis in Dili, East Timor, on Monday.

Pope arrives in deeply Catholic Timor-Leste where crowds may reach 750,000

His three-day visit will include an open-air celebration of Mass the Vatican says may include more than half the population of 1.3 million.

  • Nicole Winfield
FILE - Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, Apostolic Nuncio to the U.S., listens to remarks at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ annual fall meeting in Baltimore, Nov. 16, 2015. The Vatican’s former nuncio to the United States, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, said Thursday, June 20, 2024, he has been summoned by the Vatican to face charges of schism. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Pope Francis excommunicates archenemy archbishop

The Vatican’s former ambassador to the US developed a fringe following by peddling conspiracy theories about COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine on social media.

  • Nicole Winfield
Pope Francis faces Stephen Colbert and Chris Rock, among others.

Pope Francis hosts Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, 100 other comedians in Vatican

“All of us were thinking, how did this happen?” said comedian Conan O’Brien. “Why are we here, and when are they going to throw us out?”

  • Giada Zampano
Pope Francis has reportedly used a homophobic slur again.

Pope repeats gay slur, Italian media reports

Francis again used the term on Tuesday as he met Roman priests, saying it was better that young men with a homosexual tendency not be allowed to enter the seminary.

  • Giuseppe Fonte

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