“It’s not just despicable, but it’s also a sin,” said the Rev. Enzo Fortunato, who leads the Vatican’s World Children’s Day committee and has a tiny fragment of Acutis’ hair in a ...

The people of Lucera were known to compare him with St. Francis of Assisi, from whom he derived his name. He died in 1742 and was canonized in 1986.

ASSISI, Italy (AP ... in a church dedicated to a key moment in the life of medieval hometown saint, St. Francis. Acutis’ body was exhumed during the more-than-decade-long canonization ...

New episodes of the exclusive Fox Nation series 'The Saints,' helmed by acclaimed Hollywood director Martin Scorsese, debut ...

Pope Francis arrives in a wheelchair at the end of a mass in St. Peter’s Square at The Vatican, Sunday, April 6, 2025, part ...

Pope Francis greeted the crowd at St. Peter's Square during a special Jubilee ... "It is not easy, but it is a school in which we learn every day to love and to let ourselves be loved, without ...

The formidable Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi in downtown Santa Fe is on the front cover of David Policansky’s newly released book of photographs, “Historic Catholic Churches of ...

Francis arrived, unannounced, on the dais in St. Peter’s Square near the end of a Mass that was part of a pilgrimage by health care workers and their patients. The pope said very few words ...

Pope Francis spends part of his days working at a desk and concelebrates ... That included clearing the path to canonisation for the first saints to hail from Venezuela and Papua New Guinea, as well ...

In the following year, he became the parish vicar of Saint Francis of Assisi in Talisay. He was also the spiritual director of Holy Trinity College Seminary and prefect of discipline and procurator of ...

Pope Francis has made a surprise appearance at St Peter's Square in the Vatican following ... but continues to receive it during the day. At night, he receives a high-flow of oxygen through ...