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Hundreds of Pennsylvania priests are accused of sexuality abusing more than a thousand kids.

VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Francis urged Christians to celebrate the birth of Jesus by thinking about the plight of today's children, bemoaning how some must escape bombs or flee in migrant boats and how others are prevented from being born at all ...

Authorities say former Boston Mayor Ray Flynn crashed his car into a building on the street where he lives, but was unharmed. Police responded to the 76-year-old Flynn's South Boston neighborhood shortly before 1 p.m. Thursday. Mayor Marty Walsh's office says Flynn was not injured, but was taken to a hospital as a precaution...

One of my best moments in life was bowing in front of and being personally blessed by Mother Teresa. With my elderly mother and young son alongside, this was one of the greatest and most important events I'll ever had. And it happened in New Bedford in 1995...

The Vatican will shelter two families of refugees who are "fleeing death" from war or hunger, Pope Francis announced Sunday as he called on Catholic parishes, convents and monasteries across Europe to do the same. Francis cited Mother Teresa, the European-born nun who cared for the poorest in India, in making his appeal in remarks to pilgrims and tourists in St...

Pope Francis says it's OK to spank your children to discipline them - as long as their dignity is maintained. Francis made the remarks this week during his weekly general audience, which was devoted to the role of fathers in the family...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Gay rights groups are hailing what they call a "seismic shift" by the Catholic Church toward gays after bishops said homosexuals have gifts to offer the church and that their partnerships, while morally problematic, provide homosexuals with "precious" support.

Pope Francis is urging the international community to find a way to "re-establish the rule of law" in Iraq.

It appears the fight by a group of parishoners to keep open the historic St. John the Baptist Church in New Bedford is nearing an end. According to the Anchor, the newspaper of the Fall River Diocese, the Catholic Church's highest judicial body has upheld Bishop George Coleman's decision to close St...

For the first time in perhaps the history of the Catholic church the debate on contraception, cohabitation, divorce, re-marriage and gay marriage are being put to parishioners...and I for one think this is a genius idea.