As Amazonian bishops gathered at the Vatican on Oct. 21, 2019, a man entered a nearby church after dawn and stole three ...

Cardinal Kevin Farrell remembers the day Pope Francis asked him to be the camerlengo, the Vatican official who runs the Holy ...

A change in popes — through death or resignation — is a complicated process, with centuries-old rituals involving the ...

Arborists are turning vacant land on Detroit's eastside into a small urban forest, not of elms, oaks and red maples ...

Alex Ovechkin had seemingly done it all in hockey, leading the Washington Capitals to the Stanley Cup in 2018, earning the ...

Alex Ovechkin scored the first playoff overtime goal of his NHL career to give the Washington Capitals a 3-2 victory over the ...

Cade Cunningham had 33 points and 12 rebounds, Dennis Schroder made the tiebreaking 3-pointer with 55 seconds left, and the ...

The former Tennessee House speaker and his onetime chief of staff are facing a federal criminal trial this week, where some old colleagues will be less friendly on the ...

The New York Knicks left the court for halftime down by six on the scoreboard and way behind in the free throw statistics. The Detroit Pistons wound up shooting 34 free throws ...

The second murder trial of Karen Read, whose case has sparked a national debate on police accountability and won her legions of devoted fans, will begin Tuesday with both ...

The death of a pope starts a centuries-old ritual involving sacred oaths by the cardinals electing a successor, the piercing ...

Pope Francis probably expected that he would face opposition to his reform agenda after Catholics for two generations grew used to more conservative, doctrine-minded pontiffs.