Eat your heart out, Dan Brown, ’cause Brent Swancer’s beat you at your own game. I’ll just refrain from mentioning Brent doesn’t write like an 11th grader flunking English. Rather than postulate the contents of those 85 kilometers of bookshelves, Brent examines the psychology and a few of the tastier yarns cropping up over the […]

Astronomers are using AIs and neural networks to plow through mountains of data, so why not the Holy Roman Catholic Church? The Vatican’s resident librarians don’t know what they’re sitting on since there’s so much. We do find humor with the rumor over the Vatican possessing the world’s largest collection of pornography, and now they’re […]

Pope Francis is facing a complex row over the Vatican’s warming ties with Communist China, which have sparked a new war of words with a Hong Kong cardinal and growing bitterness among some Chinese faithful. Beijing and the Vatican severed diplomatic relations in 1951, and although ties have improved in recent years as China’s Catholic […]

A sentence in one of the recently-leaked emails said to be from Edgar Mitchell to John Podesta forms the basis for a short discussion on the Catholic Church’s attitudes towards the possibility of ET life. The author suggests mysteriously that “Perhaps there is something going on here?” and hints later on about the Vatican possibly […]

Nunzio Scarano, (pictured) the bishop of Salerno, and the chief accountant for the Vatican’s property portfolio, has been taken into custody along with an Italian secret agent a and broker.

Pope Francis raised several eyebrows when he met and shook hands with Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe during his inaugural Mass in the Vatican yesterday.