A look at U.S.-Iran tensions, the papal hand slap and The Two Popes.

For our New Year’s Day episode of "Inside the Vatican," the hosts look back at some of the biggest Vatican stories of 2019.

In the fifth episode of "Plague," Mike visits the small Midwestern city of Belleville, Illinois, where a Catholic Sister broke ground in the 1980s by opening an organization to provide services for people living with HIV and AIDS.

On this week’s episode of “Inside the Vatican,” the hosts talk about why the pope chose this theme for his speech, who he spoke to, and how these Christmas addresses fit into the pope’s larger effort to reform the Roman curia.

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This week on “Inside the Vatican,” the hosts explain what information will now be available about these cases.