Louisiana air travelers are getting fed up with one aspect of boarding an aircraft that no airline can solve. What's the problem? How would you solve it?
Documents requesting that Charlene Richard, Louisiana's Little Cajun Saint, be canonized will be sent to the Vatican and the public is invited to witness it.
David Clohessy says the pope has himself capable of making change in areas such as church governance and finance, he hasn't done so in dealing with sex abuse by Catholic clergy.
In January, the U.N. committee that monitors the treaty accused the Vatican of systematically placing its own interests over those of victims by enabling priests to rape and molest tens of thousands of children.
Archbishop Silvano Tomasi testified at a hearing at which the Vatican is being challenged with allegations that it allowed the sexual assaults of thousands of children by protecting pedophile priests.
But testimony from victims and other evidence shows secrecy in the church to protect abusers, including correspondence from a Vatican cardinal praising a French bishop's decision to protect his abusive priest.
Pope Francis named eight cardinals from around the globe Saturday to advise him on running the Catholic Church and reforming the Vatican bureaucracy, marking his first month as pope with a major initiative to reflect the universal nature of the church in key governing decisions.
This week at the Vatican in Rome, cardinals from around the world are convening to elect the next pope, which could happen any day now. Who is most likely to succeed Pope Benedict XIV? As of now, there is no clear favorite, but a few cardinals have emerged as the top choices in various betting markets.