(AP) — Pope Francis on Sunday opens a two-week meeting of bishops and cardinals from around the world aimed at making the church's teaching on family life — marriage, sex, contraception, divorce and homosexuality — relevant to today's Catholic families. The pre-synod debate has...

(AP) — Pope Francis has hailed the value of the elderly, including his predecessor Benedict XVI, who joined him at a ceremony in St. Peter's Square honoring the contribution of grandparents to society. Tens of thousands of people, many of them elderly couples and their grandchildren,...