The relic dispayed just above the tomb of St. Peter will be accessible for public viewing until Dec. 8, the solemnity of the ...

Pope Francis has been accidentally using a hashtag for the New Orleans Saints when tweeting about the religious saints. NFL ...

Everything's bigger in Texas, including debt. Lending marketplace "Lending Tree" released a study naming Austin the most debt ...

VATICAN CITY – The Catholic Church must make it easier to remove priests who have abused minors while giving victims “access to the truth”, a papal commission at the Vatican said on Oct 29 ...

The cardinal and other members of the commission presented their pilot annual report, a tool mandated by Pope Francis to measure and document the church’s progress in safeguarding minors and ...

The head of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, set up by Pope Francis in 2014, said the Church was coming out of a "dark period" in which "Church leaders tragically failed ...

We're discussing the voting process depicted in the new papal thriller "Conclave" (in theaters now). Light spoilers ahead! Twice in past years, I hopped a flight to Rome in order to cover one of ...

The tiara of Saitaphernes, a golden crown that depicts scenes from the Iliad, was once considered one of the Louvre’s most prized artifacts. Today, the tiara holds the Guinness World Record for ...

The city's grandest arena has welcomed Taylor Swift and Madonna - now for Pope Francis. In Vanimo, a town near the border with Indonesia, the Pope donned a traditional Bird of Paradise feathered ...