Jay Gotera

Pope Francis flew back to Rome on Monday after completing an epic five-day visit to the Philippines where he made history by drawing nearly 7 million people in his closing Mass amid stormy weather in Manila. It was the "largest event of the history of the Popes," according to Vatican spokesman ...Read More

Church bells rang throughout the Philippines as millions of Filipinos joyfully greeted the arrival of Pope Francis on Thursday evening with people from all walks of life lining the streets of Manila while the rest watched the historic event unfold on live television.Read More

Speaking frankly, Pope Francis told Philippine President Benigno Aquino III on Friday to end corruption in his government and to hear the cries of the poor suffering from "scandalous social inequalities." At the Malacanang presidential palace in Manila during an official welcoming ceremony on the ...Read More

Breaking with tradition and at the same time bending Vatican rules, Pope Francis on Sunday named 20 new cardinals coming from various far-flung corners of the world. It was the second time he made such major appointments in his less than two years at the helm of the Roman Catholic Church.Read More

Exploding verbal fireworks on New Year's Eve, Pope Francis vigorously denounced corruption in Rome, disclosing a "mafia-like" organization within the halls of the city government.Read More

Jennifer Lawrence, the actress who plays the role of the bow-and-arrow-wielding heroine Katniss Everdeen in "The Hunger Games" trilogy, has hit the box office bull's-eye. Lawrence, 24, tops the list of the highest-grossing actors at the box office in 2014, according to Forbes.Read More

Thanks to the power of meditation, tranquility has come to the schools located in one of the poorest and violence-wracked neighborhoods of San Francisco, California.Read More

Facebook wanted to please its users; instead it terribly annoyed some of them. When it rolled out its annual "Year in Review" feature recently, Facebook thought it would delight its users by having a photo slideshow of their "best" moments in 2014 with just one click of their mouse. But instead of getting "likes," the special feature turned off a number of users.Read More

North Korea has called the film an "act of war." But to the millions of moviegoers who watched "The Interview" in more than 300 movie theaters all over the United States on Christmas Day, it was just a funny movie.Read More