For any new Pope: the challenge of the Vatican Bank
No-one is convinced the Vatican Bank, designed to hold the donations and gifts of the faithful, is complying with the highest spiritual and temporal aspirations of Catholic worshippers.
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US intelligence services allegedly monitored Pope Benedict and other Vatican officials’ phone calls, according to the Italian magazine Panorama.
Pope Francis says gay people should not be marginalised but integrated into society, although the Catholic church still considers homosexual acts sinful.
Pope Francis uses his first Easter mass as pontiff to call for a political solution for “dear Syria” and “reconciliation” for the crisis between North and South Korea.
The wait is over, but who is Jorge Mario Bergoglio and as Pope Francis does he have the ability to connect with Catholics around the world?
From Wizard of Oz spoofs to papal emoticons and a fake Hand of God, the arrival of a new Pope sent Twitter into overdrive on Wednesday. Channel 4 News takes a look.
With Catholics worldwide celebrating the election of Pope Francis, political and relegious leaders welcome the new leader of the world’s largest Christian church.
Compassionate to single mothers but against gay marriage, open to other faiths but opposed to contraception. Channel 4 News examines the contradictions of the Latin American Pope Francis I.
No-one is convinced the Vatican Bank, designed to hold the donations and gifts of the faithful, is complying with the highest spiritual and temporal aspirations of Catholic worshippers.
A replacement for Pope Benedict should be chosen soon. How will he be elected and what is the significance of black and white smoke rising from the Sistine Chapel roof?
Jorge Mario Bergoglio is chosen as Latin America’s first pontiff and will be known as Pope Francis I.
It will be letting the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics down if this conclave does not choose a pontiff who breathes new life into the institution.
It’s probably the most innovative thing he’s done as Pope. Something no other Pope has done in over six hundred years – resign.
The Catholic Church signs the Pope up for his own Twitter account but how many of his 1.2 billion religious followers will be reading his tweets?
Pope Benedict’s one-time closest servant is sentenced to 18 months after being convicted by a Vatican court. But the Pontiff may pardon him.
The former butler of Pope Benedict XVI appears in court in relation to the leaking of sensitive Vatican documents to the media.