The Bradford Era

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis issued a Christmas Day prayer that recent U.N.-backed peace processes for Syria and Libya will quickly end the suffer...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Mother Teresa, the tiny, stooped nun who cared for the poorest of the poor in the slums of India and beyond, will be declared a sa...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — A Vatican tribunal on Tuesday rejected a journalist's request to dismiss charges against him for publishing confidential documents...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is going ahead with plans to visit the conflict-wracked Central African Republic, but his top bodyguard is doing an u...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis' personal security detail was nearly doubled during his general audience Wednesday, and carabinieri were out in force...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Declaring that "today is a time of mercy," Pope Francis on Sunday closed a historic meeting of bishops that approved an important ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican turned the tables on the Kim Davis affair Friday: Not only did it distance Pope Francis from her claims that he endors...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — One city banned Styrofoam. Another has the highest percentage of "clean" cars in Europe. Still another has cut greenhouse gas emis...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is taking his "church for the poor" to three of South America's poorest and most peripheral countries, making a gruel...