Robert Krankvich sued the church in 2018, alleging the Rev. Richard McGrath raped him while he was a high school student in ...

Multiple area athletes reached new personal records while competing at the Northeast Invitational in Arma last Thursday. ARMA ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WJAR) — A boy from Rhode Island was the heart of one of the first viral images of Pope Francis' papacy, in an embrace seen around the world. Just two weeks after becoming Pope ...

Pope Francis, who passed away on Monday, never led from above. He stood among us. In Buenos Aires, he gave up the chauffeured limousine customarily used by the city's archbishop—and rode public ...

Before he became Pope Francis, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was a devotee of La Virgen Desatanudos – Mary the untier of knots, the virgin mother of Jesus as a solver of gnarly problems.

VATICAN CITY – After spending more than five weeks in hospital for a bout of double pneumonia, doctors told Pope Francis he needed two months’ rest – but the leader of the world’s 1.4 billion ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Francis will be laid to rest Saturday after lying in state for three days in St. Peter’s Basilica, where the faithful are expected to flock to pay their respects to ...

Pope Francis died on Easter Monday at the age of 88. Here are the key things to know about the death of the Argentine pontiff, history's first from Latin America, who presided over the Catholic ...

NJIT sophomore Tariq Francis committed to the Scarlet Knights Friday, the second transfer for the retooling program this spring. Here are three things to know about the 6-foot, 180-pound ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but alienated conservatives with critiques of ...

ndonesian officials and Catholic figures have offered condolences on the death of Pope Francis, who is remembered as a role model for peace and humanity not only for Catholicism, but also the world.

During his 12 years of service as the leader of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis often became a subject of criticism and controversy Pope Francis died on Monday at the age of 88 after a ...