popes

  • Very Bad Popes Who Were Inarguably More Scandalous Than 'Young Pope'

    Before there was Jude Law playing a cigarette-smoking papal bad boy on HBO's new series, 'Young Pope,' there were popes who lived their lives "so vile, so foul, so execrable, that I shudder to think of it."

  • The Portable Pope: An Infallible Guide to America for God's Main Dude

    If you only have five days in America, and you're the Pope, here's what you should do.

  • Oh, What a Dirty War

    During the Dirty War in Argentina, members of the Catholic hierarchy were fully awake to what was going on around them. A few behaved decently and stuck their necks out for the victims; some were tortured and themselves killed.

  • Meet Frank

    Rejoice! The new pope is a man of the people! He famously cooks his own meals, rides the bus to work, and lives in a single apartment rather than in the palace befitting an archbishop. These are all good things! But there's also this...

  • Puppet Horror

    Hitler is the only individual besides Jesus Christ to exert such unflagging fascination.

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