We are only allowed to look down on a person to help them get up,’ Pope Francis told young people at the penitential ceremony.

Pope Francis on Tuesday led a prayer service asking forgiveness for the failings of the Catholic Church, including treatment by clergy of women and survivors of sexual abuse, as Catholic leaders prepared to begin a month-long summit at the Vatican.

Pope Francis is asking forgiveness for host of sins on the eve of the next phase of his big reform project ROME — Pope Francis launched the second phase of his big Catholic reform project Tuesday by asking forgiveness for a host of sins,

Members and visitors of a church in La Jolla may have been exposed to tuberculosis, according to a release Monday from the county of San Diego.

The notice of potential tuberculosis exposure quickly follows an alert regarding The Cove at La Jolla nursing home

With health officials saying the exposure appears to involve drug-resistant tuberculosis, some medications typically used to prevent the lung disease might not be effective.