ROME — The Vatican felt obliged this week to reaffirm that Pope Francis believes in a central tenet of Catholicism, that there is a hell. That odd declaration came after the newspaper La Repubblica ...

Many people believe heaven and hell are distant places we go to after death, but I’ve come to understand they are actually states of being we experience right now. This perspective has transformed my ...

The incident forced the Vatican to seal off the affected part of St Peter’s Basilica during Easter. On March 29, 2018, the same day the Pontiff made this statement, some chunks of plaster rained down ...