Papua New Guinea is set to get ... of poisoning in July 1945. Pope St John Paul II beatified Blessed Peter To Rot on 17 January 1995 in Port Moresby. Pope Francis's decrees this week also cleared ...

Today, March 13, marks the 12th anniversary of the election of Pope Francis as the 265th successor of St. Peter ... an arduous 12-day journey to Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste and ...

Papua New Guinea ... Francis authorized the publication of decrees related to several causes of canonization on Monday,” the release read. “The Pope cleared the path to canonization for Blessed Peter ...

taking the name Pope Francis in honor of St. Francis of Assisi. He is the first Latin American pope and the first from the Jesuit order. To mark the 12th anniversary of Francis’ pontificate ...

“St. Francis ... 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 there and heads the ...

Assisi, the medieval Italian town ... the pontifical committee for World Children’s Day. “And there are more similarities with St. Francis. St. Francis left the churches and went to the ...

If you're an architecture buff, take some time to check out the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, which was constructed ... religious services and holy day celebrations.

“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 ...

The Pope cleared the path to canonization for Blessed Peter To Rot, a layman martyred for the faith in present-day Papua New Guinea ... Pope St John Paul II beatified Blessed Peter To Rot on 17 ...