Pope Francis caused a sensation on social media when he was caught purchasing a pair of orthopedic shoes from a pharmacy. The 80-year-old leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Roman Catholics...

Police in Australia have detained five men suspected of planning a series of Christmas Day bomb attacks in the heart of the country's second-largest city, officials said Friday. The suspects had...

The children said they wailed as the two Roman Catholic priests repeatedly raped them inside the small school chapel in remote northwestern Argentina. Only their tormenters would have heard their...

Pope Francis on Thursday named a high-powered commission to investigate a reported condom scandal at the Order of Malta, the conservative Catholic religious order that dates from the medieval...

Pope Francis on Thursday denounced the resistance he's encountering in reforming the Vatican bureaucracy, saying some of it is inspired by the devil and that the prelates who work for him must undergo...

Authorities across Europe scrambled Thursday to track down a Tunisian man suspected of driving a truck into a Christmas market in Berlin, as one of his brothers urged him to surrender. Nearly...

German officials had deemed the Tunisian man being sought in a manhunt across Europe a threat long before a truck plowed into a Christmas market in Berlin - and even kept him under covert...

This is the main news as reported by the Associated Press on 21 December...

A Connecticut man has pleaded not guilty to raping an 18-year-old neighbor after finding and returning her lost dog. The Connecticut Post reports that 30-year-old Robert Rivera, of Bridgeport,...

Children as young as 4 years old are potential victims in the sex abuse scandal in British soccer that might be spreading to other sports. British police say there have been 819 referrals to...