A reported reference to the “Avignon Papacy” during a closed-door Pentagon meeting has sparked debate amid tensions between Donald Trump’s administration and the Vatican. While the historical term may ...

Most American Catholics were probably not expecting to spend the first week of Easter trying to figure out whether their government was threatening to overthrow the first American-born pope. Yet a ...

How bad are relations between the Trump administration and the Vatican? According to a report in The Free Press by Mattia Ferraresi, bad enough that the Vatican’s diplomatic representative to the U.S.

The Vatican has not been a major player on the geopolitical stage in, well, at least a few centuries. The Catholic state is tiny, and has not had a real army or ruled land since, give or take a ...