The former Vatican treasurer and close adviser to Pope Francis was taken into custody after lawyers withdrew his bail application.

Sideshows abound at the pontiff’s unprecedented crisis summit on clerical sex abuse as victims, children of priests, angry nuns, Bannon, and Cardinal Burke seek the spotlight.

Italy's education ministry, run by Matteo Salvini's right-leaning Lega party, has just introduced classes to help educators spot demonic possession.

The Vatican has long viewed a hysterectomy as taboo because it causes permanent sterilization. Now they're softening their stance—but only in cases of life and death.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio has revolutionized the Catholic Church's vision for the future. But enemies within—and an ongoing predator priest scandal—threaten his humanistic message.

The pontiff’s silence speaks volumes as powerful conservative Catholic clerics, some of them colluding with Steve Bannon, try to force his resignation.

But the pontiff stops short of promising to take action and appears to deflect blame for decades of abuse.