Jordi Faulí I Oller is currently the head architect of the basilica, the seventh to hold the position. Several architects who ...

Pope Francis’s encyclical, Laudato Si’, was published almost 10 years ago. This environmental text sought to move the ...

Pope Francis’s encyclical, Laudato Si’, was published almost 10 years ago. This environmental text sought to move the ...

Asked whether the pope would meet with U.S. Vice President JD Vance, a Catholic convert who will be in Rome for the Easter ...

For centuries, pilgrims came to Assisi to walk in the footsteps of a saint who preached to birds, embraced poverty and wandered the hills barefoot.But today, many arrive in search of a different model ...

Pronounced STAN-ton (not STAWN-ton, unless you enjoy the gentle correction of every local you’ll encounter), this Shenandoah ...

In life Francis I, 'Most Christian King' of a France that only sixty years before his accession had finally expelled English occupiers from the realm (and had still to tolerate Calais as an English ...

Carlo Acutis, the first millennial saint, is a teen whose ordinariness is the draw ASSISI, Italy – Pilgrims have been pouring into this medieval hilltop town to venerate not only two of the Catholic ...

That denial of privilege is a parallel with St. Francis, to whom Acutis was so devoted that he asked to be buried in Assisi, said the Rev. Enzo Fortunato, who spent most of his religious career ...

Pope Francis’ historic “Statio Orbis” blessing during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic remains relevant for the Church as it did five years ago. Before an empty and rain-covered St. Peter ...

ASTON — The world premiere of “No Risk, No Gain: The Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia ... She even took a brief trip to Assisi, Italy, during the film project. She amassed 4,000 ...

Martaze Davis led a Detroit gang called the 42 Hustle Boys. The 42 Hustle Boys and a rival gang, the Seven Mile Bloods, engaged in a longstanding and deadly feud.