Olean Times Herald

VATICAN CITY — Christianity’s most joyous feast day was celebrated worldwide with the faithful spaced apart in pews and singing choruses of “Halleluja...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis declared Tuesday he is allowing all priests in the church's upcoming Year of Mercy to absolve women of the "sin of ab...

ROME (AP) — Survivors of a migrant boat that capsized off Libya as rescuers approached told investigators that smugglers armed with knives forced peop...

ROME (AP) — By night, the Calabrian immigrant family served up piping-hot pizza. After hours, Italian and U.S. authorities say, the restaurant in the ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis, presiding at the traditional Good Friday Colosseum procession, decried what he called the "complicit silence" about the kill...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis promised to hold bishops accountable for the protection of minors and begged forgiveness Monday from the victims of c...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis directed the Vatican on Friday to act decisively on clergy sex abuse cases and punish pedophile priests, saying the C...

ROME (AP) — He was pilloried by the Vatican for creating a sculpture of Pope John Paul II that some mockingly say looks more like Fascist dictator Ben...