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For lovers of Italian art, the Santa Croce Basilica is as close as you can come to ascending a stairway to heaven and looking angels in the eye.
Fresh scandal has hit the cardinals who are due to choose Pope Benedict XVI's successor as he spoke from his window for the last time.
Pope Benedict published the last part of his trilogy on the life of Jesus which reaffirms the the virgin birth as an "unequivocal" truth of faith.
God's mind was behind scientific theories such as the Big Bang, and Christians should reject the idea that the universe came into being by accident.
God's mind was behind scientific theories such as the Big Bang, and Christians should reject the idea that the universe came into being by accident.
Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina has been elected to be the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church, and would take the name Francis I.
Pope Francis has inaugurated his papacy with an address calling for the defence of the weakest in society and of the environment.
The case against Paolo Gabriele, in which he is accused of stealing and leaking documents alleging corruption in the Vatican, has been adjourned.
