SALEM, Mass. (Court TV) — A Massachusetts woman has been convicted on charges she murdered her live-in boyfriend by poisoning him with antifreeze. Judy Church sits in court during her murder trial.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio, an Argentinian son of Italian immigrants who became Pope Francis, turned out to be a consistently surprising pontiff who forced his Roman Catholic Church to look beyond its ...

Pope Francis, the first Jesuit and Latin American elected to the papacy, died Easter Monday. He was 88 years old. His death was announced by Cardinal Kevin Farrell, the camerlengo of the Holy Roman ...

The pope was formally pronounced dead by the cardinal camerlengo — currently Irish-born American Kevin Farrell — who is one of the most important Vatican officials during the interregnum period.

Pope Francis on Feb. 5 said the recent death of retired Pope Benedict XVI has been "instrumentalized" by those in the Catholic Church seeking to score points against the current papacy and using the ...