Pius XII

Francis, the comic strip

Francis, the comic strip: A holiday to push back the darkness.

Pat Marrin

Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini, who became Pope Paul VI (CNS/Courtesy of the Brescia Diocese)

Research in Pius XII archives highlights another figure: future Paul VI

By Joshua J. McElwee

Pope Hamlet: Paul VI's indecisive, wavering papacy

By Paul Collins

Cardinal Raymond Burke and Cardinal Gerhard Müller arrive in procession for a Mass celebrated by Pope Francis to open the Synod of Bishops on the family in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Oct. 5, 2014. (CNS/Paul Haring)

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By Michael Sean Winters

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Vatican silence on Cardinal Pell's trial is a turn from a long history