Pope Francis has held up the Congolese liturgy as a model for similarly inculturated rites in other parts of the Catholic world.

The passionate reaction to Maradona’s death was a sign of his transcendence and quasi-religious appeal.

A timeline of the key moments that led to the rise and fall of Theodore McCarrick

Today, the Vatican released an unprecedented, 400-page report on who exactly knew how much about McCarrick’s misconduct and how he was able to rise through the ranks.

The Vatican’s McCarrick report comes out Tuesday. Here’s what we can expect.

There is nothing unprecedented in recent decades about close presidential elections—in fact, they’re almost always close these days—and there is also nothing new in a delay in finding out the winner.