As many take part in Earth Day celebrations, some are acknolwedgingThis Earth Day comes just one day after Pope Francis died at the age of 88 and a Northern Vi ...

The public viewing of the pope will be held in St. Peter’s Basilica after his casket is taken by procession from the Vatican. His funeral will begin at 10 a.m. on Saturday.

Looking at the mural at a Philadelphia Catholic school that honors the historic 2015 visit by Pope Francis during the World ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — After the Vatican City announced Pope Francis' passing on Monday morning, a Spokane artist and two Gonzaga ...

With St. Peter’s, St. John Lateran, St. Paul Outside the Walls, it is one of four basilicas in Rome granted special status by ...

Key events in the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis and died on Monday: Dec. 17, 1936: Jorge Mario ...

ASSISI, Italy (AP) — Pilgrims have been pouring into this medieval hilltop town to venerate not only two of the Catholic Church’s most celebrated saints, Francis and Clare, but its newest — Carlo ...

As he addressed a large gathering in the hall below the Cathedral of ... McIntyre of Philadelphia as co-consecrators. Drawing on a prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi later adapted by the founder of his ...

Pope Francis arrives in a wheelchair, helped by his personal nurse Massimiliano Streppetti, at the end of a mass in St Peter’s Square at The Vatican, Sunday April 6 (Andrew Medichini/AP ...

were gifted to the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia for their retirement home, Assisi House in Aston, by a visiting priest. Since then, the elder sisters have cherished their feathered ...

Few individuals in church history have straddled the fault line between insider and outsider quite so capably as Francis of Assisi – a ... of the medieval saint. Defined against the bourgeoisie ...