The FBI is investigating an early Wednesday attack in which a U.S. Army veteran drove a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year ...

Days earlier, just before Christmas, outgoing President Joe Biden commuted the executions of 37 prisoners, responding to ...

Authorities say the driver of a pickup truck sped through a crowd of pedestrians gathered in New Orleans' bustling French Quarter district early on New Year's Day, killing at least 10 people and ...

Pope Francis called for the protection of life at New Year’s Day Mass on Wednesday, offering a seemingly anti-abortion ...

Pope Francis' new book on hope reveals his reflections on humor and his near-miss with suicide bombers during a visit to Iraq.

In a rare conversation with Norah O'Donnell, Pope Francis talked about Catholics in Gaza and the legacy he hopes to leave in ...

Pope Francis called for "arms to be silenced" around the world in his Christmas address on Wednesday, appealing for peace in ...

The intimate Mass led by Pope Francis marked a historic moment — the first opening of a jubilee Holy Door within a prison.

"I wanted the second Holy Door to be the one here, at a prison," Francis told the inmates. "I wanted all of us, inside or out ...

ROME -- Pope Francis inaugurated his Holy Year at Rome’s main prison on Thursday, bringing a message of hope to inmates and involving them in the Catholic Church’s once every quarter-century ...

Pope Francis, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church, delivered the "Urbi et Orbi" Christmas message and blessing from the ...