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US Treasurer Brandon Beach/X by Peter Edwell, Macquarie University A proposed one dollar coin featuring US President Donald Trump is causing ructions across the political divide....

By José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro, CC BY-SA 4.0., CC BY-SA Darius von Guttner Sporzynski, Australian Catholic University He lived and died more than 2,000 years ago...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — President Barack Obama and the Vatican gave distinctly different accounts of the president's audience with Pope Francis on Thursday, with...

This past August Patrice Alexander and Emmai Alaquiva took a week-long trip to Paris France. Alexander thought this was just a European vacation that...

In this photo provided by St. Louis University, the Rev. John Padberg, S.J., director of the Institute of Jesuit Sources, speaks during a...

A woman receives assistance at the Palermo Civico hospital, Italy, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013 after being rescued off the Italian island of Lampedusa....

Serena Williams returns the ball to Belarus' Victoria Azarenka during their final match at the Italian Open tennis tournament in Rome, May 19....

by Nicole Winfied ROME (AP) — Italy's first Black Cabinet minister, targeted by racist slurs following her appointment last week, said Friday that Italians aren't racist but that some are merely ignorant of other cultures and the "richness" that immigration can bring.

by Donna Brazile (CNN) -- "I hope you haven't made a mistake," Pope Francis told the cardinals at his celebratory dinner after he was chosen to lead the Catholic Church. He then urged the assembled hierarchy to nourish their bodies, and said with a grin, "May God forgive you for what you've done."