Carlo Acutis will become the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint at a solemn canonization Mass on April 27 in St.

Pilgrims have been pouring into this medieval hilltop town to venerate not only two of the Catholic Church’s most celebrated ...

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 ...

A statue of St. Francis of Assisi and a wolf is seen May 30, 2015, in the town of Gubbio, Italy. (CNS/Octavio Duran) However, the conflict between wolves and farmers is not a simple matter of ...

His body was later transferred to an Assisi cemetery as Acutis had asked, because of his devotion to the hometown medieval saint, St. Francis. His road to sainthood — the canonization process ...

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 ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis’s gravelly, frail voice echoed through St. Peter’s Square on Thursday, as a recorded message from the ailing pontiff delivered his first spoken words to 1.4 ...

Francis of Assisi: the Life of a Restless Saint by Volker Leppin It is curious that no previous pope had taken the name of such an influential figure, although there has never been a pope Dominic ...

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 ...

Before an empty and rain-covered St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis held Eucharistic adoration and gave an extraordinary urbi et orbi blessing, praying for the world during the coronavirus pandemic.

Crowds flock to newest Catholic saint in Assisi — a millennial teen whose ordinariness is the draw “St. Francis, St. Clare, of course, important saints who marked an epoch – but that’s far ...