From murder and bribery to putting a dead pope on trial—these scandalous popes took church corruption to shocking new heights ...

It focuses on Cardinal Lawrence, the Dean of the College of Cardinals, who is leading the Conclave, a voting process by the College of Cardinals to elect a successor to the papacy. As this event is ...

Yet it has not always been this way. It was only with Pope Pius IX in the mid-19th century that the papacy would become so visible. He was the first to have his picture widely displayed in ...