For centuries, pilgrims came to Assisi to walk in the footsteps of a saint who preached to birds, embraced poverty and ...

The Catholic Church starts its busiest week of the year on Sunday with the countdown to Easter, but Pope Francis remains out ...

COMMENTARY: The Council of Nicaea gave Christianity more than a creed — it gave the Church a way to calculate Easter. But ...

General Audience with Pope Francis, 17 avril 2013/Mazur ... information reaching the Holy See's Press Office in recent days. The “mechanical ventilation” that helps the pope breathe at night ...

VATICAN: The 2025 edition of the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation takes place during the Jubilee Year, which also ...

"Seeds of Peace and Hope" is the theme for the World Day of Prayer for Creation, which will be celebrated Sept. 1.

“In early 2024, we presented a feasibility study to the Catholic Schools Board,” said María José Valladares, vice president ...

AUSTRALIAN Catholic University experts in theology, liturgy, and ecology are supporting a global proposal to institute a new ecumenical liturgical feast to celebrate the mystery of creation. The ...

ASSISI, Italy (AP) — Pilgrims have been pouring into this medieval hilltop town to venerate not only two of the Catholic ...

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 ...

That’s what we all thought too. And no one gave up.” Francis left the hospital on March 23 after 38 days in hospital, the longest since his election as pope. The pontiff had a number of ...

CBS News New York's Jenna DeAngelis has more on the pontiff's recovery and his first public appearance on Sunday.