Francis of Assisi, that lovable saint, was the subject of a very successful exhibition at the National Gallery in 2023. The exhibit I found most impressive was a sackcloth habit reputed to have been ...

As the Church celebrates the Jubilee Year of St. Francis on the 800th anniversary of his death, a very accessible new book by Leonard Desroches is a perfect way to deepen our understanding of St.

Pope Leo XIV has proclaimed a special Jubilee Year coinciding with the 800th anniversary of the death of St. Francis of Assisi. The Apostolic Penitentiary, a Vatican tribunal that deals ...

Everyone knows the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi, the burial place of the founder of the Franciscan order, as well as the basilica housing the Portiuncula. But few know the Eremo delle Carceri, a ...

STEUBENVILLE — Franciscan University of Steubenville welcomed Pope Leo XIV’s proclamation of 2026 as the Jubilee Year of St.

Pope Leo XIV also traveled to the city of Montefalco, where he celebrated Mass in the monastery of the Augustinian nuns, which was erected in the 13th century. Pope Leo XIV visits the tomb of St.

A church in Mexico has been reunited with a painting of Saint Francis of Assisi, its namesake, that was stolen nearly a quarter-century ago. Thieves entered the Church of San Francisco de Asis in ...

ASSISI, Italy — 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 Acutis, ...

The chicken coop is located about 300 feet from Lubavitcher World Headquarters in Brooklyn. It’s part of The Crown Heights Homestead, which, according to Google Maps, is “permanently closed,” Don’t ...