A number of wildfires are spreading across the Los Angeles area, fuelled by strong winds, engulfing homes, forcing tens of ...

President Joe Biden on Wednesday canceled the final overseas trip of his presidency just hours before he was set to depart ...

He is appointing Sister Simona Brambilla, an Italian nun, to become prefect of the Vatican department responsible for all the ...

Pope Francis has denounced the "scourge" of child labor and other abuses suffered by children, saying anyone who harms or exploits a child will have to answer to God.

Pope Francis has appointed Sister Simona Brambilla to lead a Vatican department, naming the first woman head of the office that oversees the world's Catholic religious orders and congregations.

New Hampshire's attorney general is signing off on the sale of Manchester's Catholic Medical Center to an out-of-state for-profit company.

More pardons, measures to prevent homegrown political extremism, and more military aid for Israel are among the plans that ...

The cargo ship Eagle S seemed entirely unremarkable as she left port in Russia bound for Turkey on Christmas Day.

Pope Francis named Cardinal Robert McElroy of San Diego, a San Francisco native, as the archbishop of Washington, tapping one of his most progressively like-minded allies to head the Catholic Church ...

The Vatican on Monday assigned a bishop from California to lead the Archdiocese of Washington and its over half-million catholic parishioners as the region, and the nation prepares for a political ...