CANBERRA, Australia – The most senior Roman Catholic cleric to be convicted of covering up child sex abuse was sentenced to 12 months in detention by...
SYDNEY – Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will deliver a national apology to child sex abuse victims as part of the government’s response to a...
ADELAIDE – Australian Archbishop Philip Wilson, 67, was found guilty Tuesday of covering up child sex abuse offences in the 1970s — one of the...
MELBOURNE, Australia – Australian Cardinal George Pell, the most senior Vatican official to be charged in the Catholic Church sex abuse crisis, on Tuesday officially denied...
CHIANG RAI – The Vatican has appointed Father Joseph Wutthilert Haelom as the first bishop of Chiang Rai Diocese, allowing the Catholic church to offer improved...
KEMEROVO, Russia — Thousands of people have demonstrated in the Siberian city of Kemerovo, demanding answers and calling for the regional government’s resignation as grief mixed...
– VATICAN CITY – A topless woman from the feminist group Femen tried to snatch the statue of the baby Jesus from the Nativity scene in...
– VATICAN CITY – Bishops in Ireland have created detailed guidelines to address an issue the Roman Catholic Church has tried to keep under wraps for...
– MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Silent but defiant, Cardinal George Pell made his first court appearance in Australia on Wednesday on charges of sexual abuse, vowing...
– LONDON – Charlie Gard’s mother returned to a London court Tuesday to ask a judge to let her and the baby’s father take their critically...
– VATICAN CITY – Cardinal George Pell, one of Pope Francis’ top advisers, took a leave of absence as the Vatican’s financial czar on Thursday...
– WASHINGTON DC – President Donald Trump said in a television interview to be aired Sunday that he believes China’s president has been putting pressure on...
– NEW YORK – The United Nations Security Council immediately called for emergency talks on Wednesday after the worst chemical attack in Syria in years, as...
. . SYDNEY – Seven percent of priests in Australia’s Catholic Church were accused of sexually abusing children over the past several decades, a lawyer said...
. . MANILA – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has launched a tirade at priests and bishops critical of his crackdown on illegal drugs, accusing them of...
. . AMATRICE – A strong earthquake in central Italy reduced three towns to rubble as people slept early Wednesday, with reports that as many as...
. . SAINTE-ETIENNE-DU-ROUVRAY – Two militant attackers took hostages inside a French church during morning Mass on Tuesday near the city of Rouen, killing an...
. . MANILA – President-elect Rodrigo Duterte said Monday he would aggressively promote artificial birth control in the country even at the risk of getting in...
. . MANILA – The country’s biggest coalition of labor unions and federations on Monday assailed the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) for its...
. . NEW YORK – Each year, Forbes magazine releases its ranking of the world’s most powerful people—and it just can’t get enough of Vladimir Putin....