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 ...

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 ...

Envisioning hell as a dungeon of fire with Satan dancing around seems too bizarre, impossible and ungodly, to many men and women. “After all,” many people think, “why would a loving God create such a ...

Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster explains why Pope Francis could have made his explosive ‘hell does not exist’ statement. Speaking with BBC, he offers this as his explanation for Pope Francis’ ...