Pope Francis touched down in Singapore on Wednesday, the last stop of a four-nation Asia-Pacific trip aimed at boosting the Catholic Church’s standing in the world’s most populous region.

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Francis suggested Sunday that Israel's attacks in Gaza and Lebanon have been “immoral” and disproportionate, saying its military domination has gone beyond ...

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Pope Francis is still widely popular in several Latin American countries. But the portion of people who still see him favorably in his native Argentina has plunged by almost 30 percentage points ...

Pope Francis has met with 17 survivors of clergy sexual abuse in Belgium BRUSSELS -- On a brutal day for the frail and aging Pope Francis, the king of Belgium, its prime minister and the rector of ...

During a trip to Luxembourg and Belgium, Francis spoke with 15 people who were abused by Roman Catholic clergy. By Jenny Gross and Emma Bubola Jenny Gross reported from Brussels, and Emma Bubola ...

Pope Francis has pledged to root out the “scourge” of clerical sexual abuse after Belgium’s prime minster urged him in unusually frank terms to take concrete action. Francis was addressing ...

“Megalopolis can be safely characterized as both a radical passion project and a bewildering disaster” That dreamer is one Cesar Catilina, brilliant and arrogant architect of New Rome, a city ...

After “The Godfather” movies, “The Conversation” and “Apocalypse Now,” Francis Ford Coppola has earned the goodwill to try anything he wants, and what he wants is to create a soapy ...

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE – On Day One of Pope Francis’ visit to the Asia-Pacific, I called him “Your Holiness”, unsure of how he would react if I misspoke. But on Day 12 – the last day of ...

Pope Francis spoke about pornography and how to avoid the temptation to sin during the 500th general audience of his pontificate. Pope Francis spoke about pornography and how to avoid the ...