HARRISBURG, Pa. — A priest raped a 7-year-old girl while he was visiting her in the hospital after she’d had her tonsils removed. Another priest forced a 9-year-old boy into having oral sex, then rinsed out the boy’s mouth […]
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Hundreds of Roman Catholic priests in Pennsylvania molested more than 1,000 children — and possibly many more — since the 1950s, and senior church officials, including a man who is now the archbishop of Washington, D.C., […]
HARRISBURG, Pa. — The Latest on a grand jury report on clergy abuse in six Pennsylvania Roman Catholic dioceses (all times local):
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A Pennsylvania grand jury report on clergy sexual abuse faults Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the former longtime bishop […]
VATICAN CITY — Cardinal Bernard Law, the disgraced former archbishop of Boston whose failures to stop child molesters in the priesthood sparked what would become the worst crisis in American Catholicism, died early Wednesday, the Vatican said. He was […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh — Pope Francis on Monday begins a six-day trip to Myanmar and Bangladesh. While attention will focus on how Francis addresses the Rohingya Muslim crisis, the trip also holds huge significance for the tiny Catholic communities in […]
WASHINGTON — Churches should have the First Amendment right to endorse political candidates and still keep their tax-free status, say House Republicans, who quietly tucked a provision into a sweeping spending bill that would deny the IRS money to enforce […]
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis suffered a major blow Thursday when his top financial adviser, Cardinal George Pell, was charged in his native Australia with multiple counts of sexual assault from years ago, bringing a criminal case in the […]
VATICAN CITY — President Donald Trump and Pope Francis, two leaders with contrasting styles and differing worldviews, met at the Vatican on Wednesday, setting aside their previous clashes to broadcast a tone of peace for an audience around the […]
WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said Friday he will attend a Vatican City conference on social, economic and environmental issues next week, making the symbolic overseas trip ahead of a pivotal New York primary against Hillary Clinton.
The […]
WASHINGTON | Christian groups asking the U.S. Supreme Court to exempt them from the requirement to provide insurance covering contraception under President Barack Obama’s healthcare law face an uphill battle following Justice Antonin Scalia’s death last month.
The remaining eight justices […]
NEW YORK — As Bernie Sanders headed toward victory in New Hampshire, pundits noted the barrier he was about to break: Sanders would become the first Jewish candidate to win a major party presidential primary.
But since that Feb. 9 […]
SPARTANBURG, S.C. — The Republican Party’s tug-of-war over its relationship with black and Hispanic voters was under way long before Pope Francis decided to answer a question about Donald Trump.
On one side, Marco Rubio and others insist the GOP […]
NEWBERRY, S.C. | Pope Francis assailed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s views on U.S. immigration as “not Christian” on Thursday, prompting the billionaire businessman to reprimand the religious leader as “disgraceful” for questioning his faith.
No stranger to controversy, Trump, the […]
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE — Pope Francis said Thursday that Donald Trump is “not Christian” if he wants to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border. Trump immediately fired back, saying it is disgraceful for a religious leader to question […]
VATICAN CITY — Actor Leonardo DiCaprio brushed up his Italian to greet Pope Francis at the Vatican Thursday, discussed their shared concern over the environment and gave the pontiff a check for his charitable works.
“Your Holiness, thank you for […]
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican on Friday distanced Pope Francis from Kim Davis, the focal point in the gay marriage debate in the U.S., saying she was one of dozens of people the pope greeted in Washington and that […]
PHILADELPHIA — Latest developments in Pope Francis’ visit to the United States. All times local:
8:45 p.m.
The hundreds of thousands who journeyed to Philadelphia to see Pope Francis have thinned to a smattering of people taking pictures, stopping to get […]
PHILADELPHIA — Pope Francis urged hundreds of thousands of the faithful gathered Sunday for the biggest event of his U.S. visit to be open to “miracles of love,” closing out his joyful six-day trip with a message of hope […]
PHILADELPHIA — Latest developments in Pope Francis’ visit to the United States. All times local:
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Church officials say they don’t have an estimate of how many people turned out to see Pope Francis during the closing festival of the […]
PHILADELPHIA — Standing at the birthplace of the United States, Pope Francis extolled America’s founding ideals of liberty and equality Saturday while warning that religious freedom is under threat around the globe.
The pontiff arrived in the City of Brotherly […]
NEW YORK — Latest developments in Pope Francis’ visit to the United States. All times local:
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Pope Francis has viewed evocative artifacts of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks at ground zero before leaving the museum that memorializes it.
He spoke […]
NEW YORK — Latest developments in Pope Francis’ visit to the United States. All times local:
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Pope Francis is inside the National Sept. 11 Memorial Museum to deliver remarks to more than 400 representatives from faith groups.
About a dozen […]
NEW YORK — Pope Francis declared Friday that there is a “right of the environment” and that mankind has no authority to abuse it, telling more than 100 world leaders and diplomats at the United Nations that urgent action is […]
NEW YORK — Latest developments in Pope Francis’ visit to the United States. All times local:
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Pope Francis has left St. Patrick’s Cathedral after consoling priests for having to “bear the shame” of the clergy sex-abuse scandal, thanking America’s […]
NEW YORK — Pope Francis made a rousing show of gratitude for American nuns on Thursday while thanking clergy for persevering through the priest sex abuse scandal, seemingly intent on moving the U.S. church beyond recent crises.
The pope called […]
WASHINGTON — Standing before a rapt Congress, Pope Francis issued a ringing call to action on behalf of immigrants Thursday, urging lawmakers to embrace “the stranger in our midst” as he became the first pontiff in history to address […]
MINA, Saudi Arabia — A horrific stampede killed at least 717 pilgrims and injured hundreds more Thursday on the outskirts of the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, the deadliest tragedy to strike the annual hajj pilgrimage in […]
WASHINGTON — Latest developments in Pope Francis’ visit to the United States. All times local:
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Tens of thousands already are gathering on the front lawn of the Capitol to watch the pope’s speech on Jumbotron screens and maybe catch […]
WASHINGTON — Latest developments in Pope Francis’ visit to the United States. All times local:
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Joint gatherings of Congress for dignitaries’ speeches are usually a recipe for competing partisan ovations and chummy backslaps and handshakes.
This time, House and Senate leaders […]
WASHINGTON — The latest developments in Pope Francis’ visit to the United States. All times local:
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The Vatican says the U.S. embargo on Cuba was one of the main issues discussed by the U.S. and Holy See delegations on the […]
WASHINGTON — The latest developments in Pope Francis’ visit to the United States. All times local:
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President Barack Obama and Pope Francis had a private meeting in the Oval Office.
Their meeting followed an elaborate welcome ceremony for Francis on […]
WASHINGTON — The latest developments in Pope Francis’ visit to the United States. All times local:
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The pope says climate change is an urgent problem that “can no longer be left to a future generation.”
Francis waded into that hot-button […]
WASHINGTON — Mustering all the pageantry the White House has to offer, President Barack Obama welcomed Pope Francis to Washington on Wednesday and credited the pontiff for setting a moral example that is “shaking us out of our complacency” […]
WASHINGTON — The latest developments in Pope Francis’ visit to the United States. All times local:
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The Obamas and a crowd of thousands are welcoming the pope to the White House.
After lingering with young people outside the Vatican’s diplomatic […]
WASHINGTON — Blending politics, religion and emotion, Pope Francis and President Barack Obama are to meet in the grandeur of the Oval Office to advance causes dear to them both.
Eagerly watching is a nation that seemingly cannot get enough […]
WASHINGTON — The latest developments in Pope Francis’ visit to the United States. All times local:
4:20 p.m.
Pope Francis is eschewing a fancy limousine in favor of a more modest ride.
A few minutes after his plane touched down at Andrews […]
WASHINGTON — The latest developments in Pope Francis’ visit to the United States. All times local:
4:10 p.m.
Pope Francis is getting a rock-star welcome as he arrives for his first visit to the U.S.
Crowds at Andrews Air Force Base cheered […]
WASHINGTON — The latest developments in Pope Francis’ visit to Cuba and the United States. All times local:
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The White House says President Barack Obama’s decision to greet Pope Francis personally when he arrives at a U.S. military base […]
Pope Francis headed for Washington on Tuesday for the first visit of his life to the United States, bringing his “church of the poor” to the world’s wealthiest superpower and a country polarized over issues closest to his heart: immigration, […]
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