Authorities say a man used construction equipment to drop a heavy boom lift onto a sculpture that has stood for 25 years ...

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Francis slams both US presidential candidates for what he calls anti-life policies on abortion and migration.

For Pennsylvania farmer George Wherry, 85, fracking for natural gas under his otherwise bucolic fields means greater economic ...

A judge declined Thursday to vacate the conviction and death sentence of Marcellus Williams, a Missouri man scheduled for execution later this month in the stabbing death of a ...

A grandmother and mother-of-eight, Ms Tony is one of 23 people from Papua New Guinea's highlands who made the gruelling four-day trek to welcome Pope Francis to the country. Flying from Indonesia ...

A man was arrested after a gang-related shooting left a woman dead in Orange County. The suspect was identified as Roland Rocha, 42, according to the Santa Ana Police Department. On July 29 ...

Pope Francis has warned against using religion to fuel conflict on his last day of his visit to Indonesia, the first stop in his tour around the Asia Pacific region. At the Istiqlal mosque in the ...

The trip to Jakarta, along with the other visits to Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste and Singapore, will be the pope’s longest trip abroad since assuming the papacy. Upon landing, Pope Francis ...

Not much is known about the early life of St. Boniface, whom the Church remembers on September 4. He was elected pope on December 28, 418. It’s believed that he was ordained to the priesthood by Pope ...

Pope Francis sent a telegram of condolence on Tuesday to Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin following the death of the Italian prelate’s mother. After landing in Jakarta ...

Pope Francis arrived in Indonesia on Tuesday at the start of a tour of Asia. After an overnight flight from Rome, the Pope was wheeled off the plane in his wheelchair in Jakarta. Indonesia is the ...

Francis, 87, began on Monday a 12-day, four-country, two-continent odyssey. JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Pope Francis on Monday embarked on his 45th and most ambitious trip of his papacy, both in terms ...