For centuries, pilgrims came to Assisi to walk in the footsteps of a saint who preached to birds, embraced poverty and ...

Lent gets its name from a word meaning "springtime," the time of year when the hours of daylight are lengthening and the sun ...

Sister Gladys Anyanwu, a Nigerian nun from the Sisters of the Compassionate Heart of Christ, teaches at St. Francis of Assisi ...

Assisi has long been a place of pilgrimage, but these days the faithful come not for Saint Francis but for a tech-savvy teen ...

The Poor Clares have been part of the Catholic Diocese of Belleville since 1986, when they branched out from a monastery in ...

Assisi has long been a place of pilgrimage, but these days the faithful come not for Saint Francis but for a tech-savvy teen ...

COMMENTARY: The Council of Nicaea gave Christianity more than a creed — it gave the Church a way to calculate Easter. But ...

A University of Alabama student weeks away from graduating was killed by a falling tree while on a camping trip with friends.

Pope Francis has named a new bishop of the Diocese of Providence, Rhode Island, Bishop Bruce Alan Lewandowski, C.S.R., titular Bishop of Croae and, to date, auxili ...

The University of Alabama and St. Francis of Assisi Catholic are mourning the loss of a student who made his mark in his ...

The University of Alabama community is mourning the loss of Malachi Crain, a senior who died in a camping accident Saturday.

About 100 community members from East Palo and neighboring communities marched from Bell Street Park to St. Francis of Assisi ...