SCRANTON, Pa. — The St. Francis of Assisi Kitchen in Scranton helps people every day by serving a hot meal, and they are not taking the holiday off. Volunteers are busy preparing for Easter.

Meet 'Francis,' the talking parakeet who makes retirement fun for the Sisters of Saint Francis of Philadelphia!

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 ...

Seeing the wolf's sorrow, Francis proposed a solution. In exchange for peace, the people of Gubbio would feed the wolf and ... A statue of St. Francis of Assisi and a wolf is seen May 30, 2015 ...

ASTON — About seven years ago, Francis and Clare, a pair of budgie parakeets, were gifted to the Sisters of St. Francis ... to the library at Assisi House, where the birds reside in a spacious ...

ASSISI, Italy — Assisi has long been a place of pilgrimage, but these days the faithful come not for Saint Francis but for a tech-savvy teen soon to become the first millennial saint.

Holy Virgin Mary, there is none like you among women born in the world. Daughter and handmaid of the heavenly Father, the almighty King, Mother of our most high Lord Jesus Christ, and Spouse of ...

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 Fr. Enzo Fortunato, who spent most of his religious career there ...

Assisi has long been a place of pilgrimage, but these days the faithful come not for Saint Francis but for a tech-savvy teen soon to become the first millennial saint. Carlo Acutis, who died of ...