The Vatican has spoken out clarifying rules about how to properly report allegations of abuse within the Church. Pope Francis set up a special abuse commission in 2014 in order to root out abusive priests. Cardinal Seán O'Malley, President of the …

Front view of antennas of the Allan Telescope Array, a radio telescope for combined radio astronomy and SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) research being built by the University of California at Berkeley, outside San Francisco. The first …

The vice president of Israel's Supreme Court, Elyakim Rubinstein, said the justices sought to reach a deal that would have given non-Orthodox converts access to three public mikvahs in various regions in Israel. But the Religious Services Ministry …

In the days since the FBI reportedly foiled a terrorist attack on a Masonic center in Milwaukee, the Internet has been abuzz with talk of the hidden influence of Freemasonry, the Illuminati and other “secret societies.” Much of it is utter fantasy …

SAN FRANCISCO — Plaintiffs lawyer Elizabeth Cabraser turned to the Rolling Stones on Thursday to explain what recent amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure will mean for discovery. "You can't always get what you want, but you will get what …

Boulus said the judges were "briefed on classified material and are convinced that Muhammed al-Qiq constitutes a danger to the security of Israel," so declined to overturn the military court's ruling. Under Israel's controversial administrative …

Sir Michal Wilshaw, the Ofsted chief inspector, said the move was aimed at ensuring no discrimination took place in British classroom. He has written to all inspectors outlining the new rules.

More than 500 complaints were made about the first episode in the controversial series after it aired at 6.30pm on a Sunday evening, two-and-a-half hours before the watershed.

In a letter to Vatican officials dated December 20 but released Thursday, Francis wrote that he wanted to change the rules “to fully express the significance of Jesus' gesture, his giving of himself to the end for the salvation of the world and his …

The Vatican published a decree Thursday from the Vatican's liturgy office announcing that the rite can now be performed on anyone "chosen from among the people of God". The tradition of the priest washing the feet of 12 parishioners seated at the altar …