A Pope Francis-inspired summer reading list—if your idea of a beach read is an 700-page plague novel, a dystopian story about the Antichrist or a bizarre spy story beloved by media theorists and ...

From censorship to curiosity: Pope Francis’ appreciation for the power of history and books ... a long list of banned books. First conceived in the 1500s, it matured under Pope Paul IV.

Still, on the off chance that, in his busy pre-papal life, Pope Francis never got around to reading this book on the papacy by Archbishop Emeritus John R. Quinn of San Francisco, I think it would ...

Two pope-related e-books also have also entered the fray. Pope Francis: From the End of the Earth to Rome is an e-book published through a collaborative effort by HarperCollins and the Wall Street ...

A version of this story appeared in the July 18-31, 2014 print issue under the headline: 10 summer books that are not about Pope Francis. Advertisement. Advertisement. Advertisement.

Pope Francis is making waves in the LGBT community again with his most recent comments comparing transgender people to nuclear weapons, saying both do not "recognize the order of creation." ...

The book, which was six years in the making, vividly recreates Francis’ childhood in Buenos Aires but offers few new insights into his papacy. By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Rome “I ...

Pope Francis has named an Argentine theologian and prolific author who decades ago wrote a book on the healing properties of kissing to be the Catholic Church's new doctrinal chief, one of the ...

He is a senior fellow of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology and the author or co-author of over 50 books, including: The Encyclopedia of Catholic History, The Pope Encyclopedia, We Have a Pope!

For 400 years, the Catholic Church famously maintained the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, a long list of banned books. First conceived in the 1500s, it matured under Pope Paul IV.