Chainarong Monthienvichienchai, the author, stands in prayer before the glass tomb of Blessed Carlo Acutis at the Sanctuary ...

Today, April 17, is Maundy Thurday. It is a part of “Holy Week” observed by Roman Catholics around the world and in India, to ...

Although the pontiff has begun meeting with more people, he remains frail and will not lead important Easter events, the ...

To all, Francis offers a message of mercy. It is a message that has won him both praise and criticism.

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 ...

ANALYSIS: The Pope, who has described himself as an ‘impatient patient,’ is hardly unique among the ailing, especially the ...

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

St. Mark Church in Monticello, AR, installs new stained-glass windows, bringing the parish closer to their faith and creating ...

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 ...

His body was later transferred to an Assisi cemetery as Acutis had asked, because of his devotion to the hometown medieval saint, St. Francis. His road to sainthood — the canonization process ...

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 ...