Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims have been pouring into the medieval hilltop town of Assisi in Italy to venerate the ...

Few individuals in church history have straddled the fault line between insider and outsider quite so capably as Francis of ...

Italian prosecutors opened an investigation of an illegal online auction of a relic of Bl Carlo Acutis, one month before his ...

Pilgrims flock to Assisi ahead of canonisation of first millennial saint - The London-born teen shows faithful ‘it’s possible ...

The legend of St. Francis of Assisi and Brother Wolf tells a story not of taming a wild creature, but of cooperation and ...

Six months after a fire ripped through the classrooms of St. Francis of Assisi elementary school in Springfield, ...

As Pope Francis battled for his life, doctors at one point considered giving up treatment and letting the 88-year-old pontiff ...

For decades, St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church stood as a beacon of hope in Yazoo City.

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 ...