During her decades-long career in Rochester Public Schools, Soltis was a junior high school English teacher ... Soltis met a sister from St. Francis of Assisi who knitted small Raggedy-Ann ...

24th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Justice Program Hundreds of people gathered to honor Dr. King’s legacy at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, 1937 N. Vel R. Philips Ave. ‘Beloved Community Day’ ...

On the first day of his visit to Lebanon, the Cardinal Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development ...

Pope Francis, despite a worrying bilateral pneumonia diagnosis, is breathing on his own and not experiencing heart problems, ...

If you really want him to rest, you have to hospitalize him,” quipped Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline, the archbishop of Marseille ...

The pope's remarks on immigration, Gaza and Ukraine have attracted considerable scrutiny in the final years of his papacy.

WE HAVE become accustomed to hearing the name of St Clare of Assisi alongside that of St Francis. Indeed, she referred to herself as his “little plant”. While she certainly flourished from the ...

In an update, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni confirmed that Francis has no fever and that his health indicators remain stable.

Pope Francis, 88, slept well and ate breakfast on Wednesday morning after he was diagnosed with bilateral pneumonia, ...

Maybe that is part of their charisma, suggests Volker Leppin in his biography Francis of Assisi: The Life of a Restless Saint, newly translated after first being published in German. For a ...

Pope Francishas shown a "slight improvement", is alert and got out of bed to eat breakfast on Thursday, the Vatican said, as ...

Every Jan. 24, the Catholic Church celebrates St. Francis de Sales, bishop of Geneva and doctor of the Church, known as “the saint of kindness.” He reportedly had a bad temper, but he relied ...