VATICAN CITY: When Pope Francis canonizes Mother Teresa Sunday, he’ll be honoring a nun who won admirers around the world and a Nobel Peace Prize for her...
ABOARD THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER GARIBALDI: The leaders of Italy, France and Germany vowed Monday to boost joint European security efforts in the wake of Islamic...
ROME: It’s a story almost too fantastical to be true. A flea market dealer finds a painting near a subway trash bin, submits it to laboratory analysis...
ROME: A 7-year-old Syrian girl suffering from a rare form of eye cancer arrived in Italy Thursday, the first of an estimated 1,000 refugees who are being...
VATICAN CITY: The Vatican is disputing a U.S. film studio’s claim that the pope is making his motion picture debut, saying no scenes were shot for the venture...
SANTIAGO, Cuba: Pope Francis ends his visit to Cuba Tuesday with a Mass at the country's most revered shrine and a pep talk with families before flying...
VATICAN CITY: The Vatican's former ambassador to the Dominican Republic, who had been charged by church prosecutors with sexually abusing children in the...
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE: Pope Francis is calling for the peace process in Colombia to go ahead and is offering the Holy See's assistance if it might...
QUITO, Ecuador: Pope Francis wraps up the first leg of a three-nation South American pilgrimage Wednesday after issuing an impassioned call for a new economic...
GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador: Pope Francis received a hero's welcome in Ecuador's biggest city Monday as he celebrated the first public Mass of his South American tour,...
VATICAN CITY: The embattled archbishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis, and a deputy bishop resigned Monday after prosecutors there charged the archdiocese with...
ROME: Italian officials say an Italian doctor kidnapped in Libya in January has been freed.An official at the Foreign Ministry, speaking on condition of...
ROME: Italy said Friday it wanted more information from the United States about how an Italian aid worker was killed in a U.S. drone strike on the...
VALLETTA, Malta: European officials honored the dead of the Mediterranean's worst-ever migrant disaster Wednesday as more would-be refugees arrived in Italy...
VATICAN CITY: Artist Shen Jiawei’s paintings of Chinese soldiers during the Cultural Revolution were so popular with Mao’s regime that 250,000 copies of his...
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis Thursday urged his cardinals to cooperate in reforming the outdated and dysfunctional Vatican bureaucracy, saying the overhaul will...
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis decreed Tuesday that slain Salvadoran archbishop Oscar Romero was killed out of hatred for the faith, approving a martyrdom...
MANILA, Philippines: A record 6 million people poured into Manila's rain-soaked streets and its biggest park Sunday as Pope Francis ended his Asian pilgrimage...
MANILA: An estimated 3 million people filled Manila's main park and surrounding areas for Pope Francis' final Mass in the Philippines Sunday, braving...
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE: Pope Francis said Thursday he is convinced that global warming is "mostly" man-made and that he hopes his upcoming encyclical on the...
BARI, Italy: Fighting high winds and stormy seas, helicopter rescue crews on Monday evacuated the last of the hundreds of people trapped aboard a Greek ferry...
BARI, Italy: Helicopters defied high winds, stormy seas and darkness Monday to pluck hundreds of passengers from a Greek ferry that caught fire off Albania,...
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis issued a blistering critique Monday of the Vatican bureaucracy that serves him, denouncing how some people lust for power at all...
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis rightly got credit for helping bring the U.S. and Cuba together and free U.S. government subcontractor Alan Gross. But it was...
VATICAN CITY: The Vatican urged bishops Tuesday to be guided by Pope Francis and the "turning point" of a recent meeting on family issues that sought to...