The Vatican said Saturday it defrocked former cardinal of Washington, D.C., Theodore McCarrick, after finding him guilty of sex abuse.

The Democratic Republic of Congo's electoral commission on Wednesday declared opposition candidate Felix Tshisekedi the winner of its presidential election.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison confronted Monday a growing child sexual abuse scandal by apologizing to victims.

The U.S. Department of Justice has subpoenaed two Catholic dioceses in a probe into the child sex abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church of Pennsylvania.

Speaking Sunday in St. Peter's Square, Pope Francis entered Pope Paul VI and slain Salvadoran priest Oscar Romero into the Roman Catholic Church's sainthood.

Hundreds of mourners waited hours on Saturday to enter St. Stanislaus Roman Catholic Church in Amsterdam, N.Y., to pay respects to four families who lost eight children.

Kim Jong Un has invited Pope Francis to Pyongyang.

A Catholic Diocese in Indiana published the names of 18 former priests and deacons the diocese said have been "credibly accused" of sexually abusing children.

Six Catholic dioceses in Pennsylvania covered up the sexual abuse of more than 1,000 children by hundreds of clergymen over the past seven decades.

Philip Wilson, the archbishop of Adelaide, Australia, was found guilty Tuesday of concealing abuse by another priest more than 40 years ago.

Dozens of students arrested last week during violent anti-government protests in Nicaragua have been released by police, officials said.

Experts have begun clearing thousands of land mines at a site in the West Bank where Christians believe Jesus was baptized.

On Oct. 22, 2012, the International Cycling Federation stripped Lance Armstrong of his seven Tour de France titles amid a doping scandal.

On Sept. 27, 1938, Queen Elizabeth christened the world's largest ocean liner with her own name during a ceremony in Scotland.

Paul Shanley, the defrocked Boston priest whose actions helped touch off a global child sex abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church, was let out of prison.