The man tried to rip off the cloth, as well as kicking down antique candelabra worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.

Just outside the city walls of Tomar, the last Portugese town to be commissioned for construction by the Knights Templar, lies a small church with a suprisingly important connection to this once ...

Vatican City — A Vatican document released Tuesday offers wide-ranging ethical guidelines for the application of artificial intelligence in sectors from warfare to healthcare, with an underlying ...

FILE - Archbishop of Lima Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne celebrates a Mass, Jan. 18, 2001 in Lima, Peru. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File) ...

VATICAN CITY (AP ... Saturday just outside St. Peter’s Square. “I think I also let go of a heavy weight, which is the voice of so many victims.” He attributed the church’s slow ...

FILE - Archbishop of Lima Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne celebrates a Mass, Jan. 18, 2001 in Lima, Peru. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File) ...

VATICAN CITY (AP ... Saturday just outside St. Peter’s Square. “I think I also let go of a heavy weight, which is the voice of so many victims.” He attributed the church's slow response ...

Two written appeals to Rome to keep the church were unsuccessful, and this in-person court will be the final decision from the Vatican. Learn more in the interview above.

Trump's envoy pick Burch criticised pope's LGBTQ stance Vatican officials cautious about papal critics like Burch Pope not looking for diplomatic spat with US, source says VATICAN CITY ...

Reflecting on how one’s work impacts the “big picture” within an organization is often considered the domain of executives and senior leaders. Though middle managers and lower-level ...

ROME — Pope Francis has taken the remarkable step of dissolving a Peruvian-based Catholic movement, the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, after years of attempts at reform and a Vatican investigation.

A nun will take over as head of the Vatican City State’s executive branch in March this year, according to the pope, to become the first woman appointed to the role. Francis said he intends to appoint ...