By the time Francis took over as leader of the Catholic Church in 2013, meetings between the president and the pontiff had ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church’s teaching in areas such as the death penalty and nuclear ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Key events in the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis and died on Monday: Dec. 17, 1936: Jorge Mario Bergoglio is born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the eldest of ...

"There's been so much hatred and anger and vitriol. It was important for us to pray, to hold silence, to sing, to remind ourselves that we have a better nature," said Rt. Rv. Kara Wagner Saherer, ...

The Anglican Communion is one of 12 world Christian Communions that have released a unified message to mark the joint ...

This Easter, the Anglican Communion is one of 12 Christian World Communions to issue a letter marking a joint celebration of ...

"There's been much more heightened security and heightened investigations at the border," she said. "There is just tremendous fear, fear for numerous reasons. First of all, there's fear of getting ...

About 80 people, from both sides of the border, showed up April 5 for the Via Crucis procession that flowed through the city ...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Zen, a 5-year-old border collie ... Zen and his handler were on the first helicopter leaving base 10 minutes away. By the time they arrived, witnesses had ...

Advertisement In 1918, the United States first observed daylight saving time, moving clocks ahead one hour. In 1931, Notre Dame college football coach Knute Rockne, 43, was killed in the crash of ...

Bishop McKeown said the group 'administer sacraments, but do so illicitly' At least one former, defrocked priest is believed to have held masses and administered communion in a community hall the ...

The Table Rock Fire had burned more than 11,400 acres as of Sunday morning. A massive wildfire burning for more than a week in South Carolina jumped the border Saturday and was spreading Sunday ...