The Catholic Church has been undergoing a long, slow shift, playing out on the timescale of centuries: a shift to distance ...

Pope Francis arrived on Sept. 3 in Indonesia, the first stop in a 12-day visit to four Asia-Pacific nations and the most extensive papal tour of the continent by any pope, raising pastoral and ...

3, 2024. (Tiziana Fabi/AFP via Getty Images) (JAKARTA, Indonesia) — Pope Francis on Monday embarked on his 45th and most ambitious trip of his papacy, both in terms of distance and duration. It’s a 12 ...

Francis, 87, began on Monday a 12-day, four-country, two-continent odyssey. JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Pope Francis on Monday embarked on his 45th and most ambitious trip of his papacy, both in terms ...

Between 1550 and 30 B.C., many ancient Egyptian paintings and sculptures depicted men and women wearing small, conical adornments on top of their heads. The type of activities people did while ...

In that glacial sample from the Himalayas, scientists have now identified more than 1,700 ancient viruses, though they note that these species do not infect humans. Their findings, tracing how the ...

Pope Francis on Monday embarked on his 45th and most ambitious trip of his papacy, both in terms of distance and duration. It's a 12-day, four-country, two-continent odyssey; with stops in ...

Pope Francis, who will turn 88 on Dec. 17, has set out to visit four countries in Asia and Oceania over the next 12 days: Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Timor Leste and Singapore. He aims to reach ...