Nicole Winfield, Associated Press

Police divers have resumed searching for six people believed trapped in the hull of the superyacht, including British tech magnate Mike Lynch.

Mike Lynch’s wife and 14 other people survived, authorities said.

A Group of Seven summit is opening in Italy with agreement on a U.S. proposal to back a $50 billion loan to Ukraine using frozen Russian assets as collateral.

The remarks by Pope Francis were delivered behind closed doors to Italian bishops on May 20.

The Vatican issued a document explaining a radical change in policy by insisting that people seeking God’s love and mercy shouldn’t be subject to “an exhaustive moral analysis” to receive it.

The historic reform reflects Pope Francis’ hopes to give women greater decision-making responsibilities and laypeople more say in the life of the Catholic Church.

The statement from the Vatican marked a historic recognition of its own complicity in colonial-era abuses committed by European powers.

The Vatican says Pope Francis will be hospitalized for several days for treatment of a pulmonary infection after experiencing difficulty breathing in recent days.

L’Arche’s national and regional leaders have been meeting for the past week in the hills outside Rome for the first time since revelations that their official history has been shown to be a lie and their hero-founder, Jean Vanier, a narcissistic and delusional abuser.

He set the Catholic Church on a conservative, tradition-minded path that often alienated progressives.

Tens of thousands of people assembled at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, Alberta, to mark the Feast of St. Anne, the grandmother of Jesus and a figure of particular veneration for Canadian Catholics.

As Pope Francis prepares to visit Canada, First Nations leaders question how some of the works were acquired and wonder what else may be in storage.

The new provisions, released Tuesday after 14 years of study, were contained in the revised criminal law section of the Vatican’s Code of Canon Law, the in-house legal system that covers the 1.3 billion-strong Catholic Church.

The note distinguished between the church’s welcoming and blessing of gay people, which it upheld, but not their unions.

Pope Francis urged Iraqis on Friday to treat their Christian brothers as a precious resource to protect, not an “obstacle” to eliminate as he opened the first-ever papal visit to Iraq with a plea for tolerance and fraternity among Christians and Muslims.