VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis spends part of his days at his desk working and concelebrates Mass daily in his private ...

Employees across the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services began receiving notices of dismissal Tuesday, as part of a ...

Fred Fisk has a good claim to be regarded as the Australian National University’s first development economist, argues John Conroy in a new book.

Though doctors prescribed two months of rest after his case of double pneumonia, Pope Francis isn't sitting idle behind the ...

Pope Francis has approved the decree for the canonization of Blessed Peter To Rot, a layman from Papua New Guinea martyred ...

Papua New Guinea is set to have its first saint. Pope Francis approved the canonization of Blessed Peter To Rot on Monday, ...

Pope Francis approves the canonisation of Peter To Rot as PNG's first saint, not long after being released from hospital.

Millions of years ago, as the Indo-Australian plate pushed into the Pacific plate, a volcanic arc of islands began to emerge ...

Archaeologists show some of the first people to settle the ancient continent of Sahul arrived on the shores of present-day ...

Facebook shutdown, tenuously linked to terrorism, raises serious constitutional, goverance and human rights issues, say ...

The Right Revd Anthony Poggo, Secretary General of the Anglican Communion is pictured with The Right Revd Nathan Ingen, ...

Authorities said it was a "test" to limit misinformation, while critics called it a violation of human rights.