The Vatican: A Wholly Roman Empire?

With some 1.2 billion followers around the globe, the Catholic Church represents the largest, most populous religion in the world. The church runs over 200,000 schools, more than a quarter of the world’s healthcare facilities, and with increasing numbers of new devotees in Asia and Africa, it seems Catholicism is itself in rude health. Al-Jazeera’s Empire travels to Rome, the spiritual home of the world’s oldest Christian denomination to reveal, on deeper examination, a more complex picture of a faith in flux and a church at a crossroads.