A papal nomination was dangerous business – sometimes to the person, most often to his property. “Ubi periculum” established ...

DEADLINE: Sister Agnes’s use of her agency is also very important in assisting Cardinal Lawrence in the election cycle. She ...

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Working on the thriller of sorts about selecting a new pope, the actor says it fed her brain and was just what she looks for ...

Father Carter Griffin, the rector of St. John Paul II Seminary in Washington, D.C., spoke to CNA about the filmmakers’ ...

The impact of Conclave at theaters again raises the question of whether serious adult fare can again command a strong market ...

In the new THR feature The Watchers, a group of Catholic Church experts come together to break down what’s actually going on in the new Ralph Fiennes drama.

In the film, Conclave, Cardinal Thomas Lawrence organizes a papal conclave to elect the next pope and finds himself ...

The Vatican’s Synod on Synodality was nothing like papal gatherings of cinematic lore, but it clearly reflects Francis’s view ...

However, the real-life selection of the current Pope was the subject of the Academy Award-nominated drama The Two Popes. The ...

I'm a historian of the medieval papacy and editor of the forthcoming three volumes of the Cambridge History of the Papacy. So ...