Georgian Orthodox Patriarch Ilia II, listens to the national anthem during a welcoming ceremony for Pope Francis in Tbilisi, Georgia, 30 September 2016.

According to the most recent estimates, the conflict with Hamas in Gaza alone has cost the equivalent of one-fifth of Israel's economy. And today, billions of dollars are being burned every week i ...

The war is expanding into Lebanon, as an Israeli offensive to dismantle Hezbollah has displaced 800,000 people there, with ...

If there is something that characterizes the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, it is having had to wander from place to place in search of a fixed site where it could settle, a process during which ...

Pope Leo XIV is moving into the newly renovated papal apartment in the Apostolic Palace. The Vatican said Leo would be joined ...

Among all the news articles I have read in the past couple of years, I am not ungrateful that one poignant, below-the-fold story has remained with me, a ...

CHESTNUT HILL — Head coach Brian Foley flipped the page as soon as his Pope Francis boys hockey team lost in last year’s Div. 1 state semifinals, fully expecting to again be in a position to reach TD ...

SPRINGFIELD — No. 7 Oliver Ames made the 75-mile trek to Pope Francis’ campus in Springfield, and it wasn’t for nothing. The Tigers started off firing on all cylinders, but then Sam Brigham stepped in ...

ASSISI, Italy (AP) — The bones of St. Francis of Assisi, the medieval friar who inspired Pope Francis and generations of Christians before him, are going on public display for the first time, giving ...

Pope Leo XIV on Saturday named a veteran Vatican diplomat as his new ambassador to the United States to manage one of the Holy See's most important bilateral relationships, which has come under strain ...

People Leo XIV on Saturday announced the appointment of the Vatican’s new ambassador, Apostolic Nuncio, to the U.S. to help manage strained relations with the Trump administration. Italian Archbishop ...

Cardinal Camillo Ruini thinks Benedict XVI’s resignation was a mistake. Ruini also found himself flummoxed by the Francis pontificate and unsure whether the reign of the late Argentinian pontiff will ...