October 7, 2016 Female sports pioneers carry message to Vatican conference One in four IOC members are women, but only three are on the 14-member IOC executive board.
October 4, 2016 Pope Francis makes surprise visit to quake zone Pope Francis has made a surprise visit to the site of the devastating August earthquake in central Italy, praying silently alone amid the rubble in the hardest-hit part of the devastated town of Amatrice.
October 2, 2016 Pope Francis praises religious tolerance in volatile region with Catholic minority Pope Francis praised Azerbaijan on Sunday as a model for a world divided by violent extremism, sidestepping criticism of the government for the sake of encouraging religious tolerance in an often-volatile region where Catholics are a minority.
September 4, 2016 Mother Teresa declared a saint by Catholic Church Pope Francis declared Mother Teresa a saint on Sunday, praising the tiny nun for having taken in society's most unwanted and for having shamed world leaders for the "crimes of poverty they themselves created."
September 4, 2016 Mother Teresa: The Saint of Mercy for our time It is fitting that Mother Teresa is being canonized in the Jubilee Year of Mercy declared by Pope Francis.
September 3, 2016 Mother Teresa and me: Visa for a saint I will never forget the day in early August 1989 when Mother Teresa came to the Albanian Embassy in Rome to receive her first visa...
September 1, 2016 The ordinary act of love: Mother Teresa and her life-changing message Mother Teresa will be canonized a saint on Sunday, September 4 -- about 20 years after her passing.
August 14, 2016 Pope treats Rome's homeless to swim at beach, then a pizza Pope Francis this summer is treating dozens of Rome's homeless to a day at the beach and dinner in a pizzeria on the way back.
August 8, 2016 Archbishop's views on immigration clash with Vatican Condemning globalization and liberalism for the contributions to the migrant onslaught.
August 2, 2016 Pope Francis says it's 'terrible' that children are taught they can choose gender Pope Francis has lamented that children are being taught at school that gender can be a choice, adding that his predecessor, Benedict XVI has labeled current times "the epoch of sin against God the Creator."
