Washington, June 17 (ANI): A Roman Catholic prelate has developed a smart-phone application that will help let his parishioners know when and where he is available to listen to their sins.

Washington, June 13 (ANI): Ireland's Prime Minister Enda Kenny has said he is receiving letters written in blood following his government's plans to allow limited access to abortion.

Washington, June 9 (ANI): A Nebraska woman is facing charges after she bares it all at her former high school.

Sydney, June 8 (ANI): Pope Francis, who has railed against "careerism" in the Catholic Church since being elected as its leader three months ago, has said he never wanted to be pope.

New York, May 17 (ANI): Pope Francis and the US Pontifical Mission Societies have joined the smartphone league by launching a new mobile application called Missio featuring latest news and video about the Catholic Church.

Islamabad, May 16 (ANI): The brother of slain Pakistani minister Shahbaz Bhatti will speak in front of Pope Francis and some 120,000 members of new Catholic religious movements on Saturday, the Vatican has said.

London, May 9 (ANI): Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is being pressed once again by dissident shareholders to step down as chairman of News Corporation.

Sydney, May 9 (ANI): An Islamic school and a Catholic church in western Sydney have been attacked with pigs' heads.

Washington, May 3 (ANI): Rhode Island has become the 10th American state to allow gay and lesbian couples to wed after Gov. Lincoln Chafee signed the bill into law on Thursday evening, ending a 16-year effort to extend marriage rights in the heavily Roman Catholic state.

Washington, Apr. 26 (ANI): An anonymous online poster with the name 'Prophet Muhammad' is being probed for sending a threat to a Catholic high school in Virginia.

Washington, Apr 25 (ANI): The Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn has launched a new ad campaign this month where they portray Jesus as "The Original Hipster."

Washington, Apr. 14 (ANI): In his first major decision as the leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis selected eight cardinals from around the globe to advise him on reforming the Vatican bureaucracy and governing the church.

New York, Apr 11 (ANI): Two porn actress have lashed out at the Vatican City for downloading their video illegally, calling them hypocrites.

London, Apr. 11 (ANI): Congress in Uruguay has legalised gay marriage, becoming the second country in Latin America to do so, after Argentina.

London, Apr 11 (ANI): A midwife has apologised for telling the Indian dentist Savita Halappanavar, who suffered a miscarriage and died, that she could not have an abortion in Ireland because it was a "Catholic thing".

Allepey (Kerala), Apr 9 (ANI): Dome of an under construction catholic church collapsed in Alleppey district of Kerala on Monday, in which, one worker was killed and few others were injured.

London, Apr 9 (ANI): The widower of Indian dentist Savita Halappanavar, who died in hospital in Ireland after suffering a miscarriage, has said a consultant told the couple an abortion was not allowed because "this is a Catholic country."

Washington, Apr. 8 (ANI): Dozens of public schools that lease church-owned buildings will have to take students off site for sex education, as a result of a longstanding agreement between church and city officials.

London, Apr 5 (ANI): Number of people following Pope Francis on micro blogging platform Twitter has doubled from 2.5 million to 5.0 million in just seven weeks.

Washington, March 24 (ANI): A Catholic primary school in Australia has come out with a new classroom design, which look more like the Star Trek ship Enterprise than a traditional school setting, to help educate a new generation of smart students.

Washington, Mar. 21 (ANI): Nationally, most Catholics have said the election of Pope Francis has made them more optimistic about their church, a new poll has found.

Washington, Mar. 19 (ANI): The sister of Jorge Mario Bergoglio has revealed that in the past, she had prayed that the cardinals wouldn't pick her brother to be the new Pope.

London, Mar. 17 (ANI): Pope Francis has said he wanted 'a poor church for the poor' in his first remarks to the media since he was elected the leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics.

New Delhi/Kolkata, Mar 14 (ANI): Roman Catholics in India hailed the election of Argentine Pope Francis, who became the first non-European pontiff in nearly 1,300 years and said on Thursday (March 14) that they were holding special prayers for the new Pope who will lead over 1.2 billion Roman Catholics in the modern world.

Washington, Mar 13 (ANI): After meeting North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, former American basketball player Dennis Rodman is now en route to Rome with the goal of meeting the Catholic Church's next pope.