Now, as tradition dictates, the late pontiff's signet ring will be destroyed - or defaced, at least - within the walls of the ...

ASSISI, Italy (AP) — 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 ...

McIntyre of Philadelphia as co-consecrators. Drawing on a prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi later adapted by the founder of his Redemptorist order, Saint Alphonsus Liguori, Bishop Lewandowski took for ...

The much-anticipated National Juvenile Indoor Athletics Championships took place in TUS Athlone over the last weekend in March and following Dundalk St Gerard ... in the medals table, it was ...

Pope Francis arrives in a wheelchair, helped by his personal nurse Massimiliano Streppetti, at the end of a mass in St Peter’s Square at The Vatican, Sunday April 6 (Andrew Medichini/AP ...

A lot of attention has been focused on St Francis of Assisi after Cardinal Bergoglio took the name of Francis upon his election as Pope. As well we should, because St. Francis taught his followers to ...

Robert “Father Bobby” Smith, the former Saint Francis Ministries CEO who is charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, 15 counts of wire fraud, and one count of money laundering, asked the court ...

Meeting on St. Patrick’s Day, she wears green earrings. Her golf shirt has splotches of slime from her classroom day. Around her neck is a medal of St. Mary and St. John Baptist de La Salle, the ...

In the following year, he became the parish vicar of Saint Francis of Assisi in Talisay. He was also the spiritual director of Holy Trinity College Seminary and prefect of discipline and procurator of ...

ASSISI, Italy (AP ... Catholic Church’s most celebrated saints, Francis and Clare, but its newest — Carlo Acutis, the first millennial saint, who will be canonized on April 27.

TRAVERSE CITY — A church music director fired for marrying his same-sex partner, is suing St. Francis Catholic Church and the Diocese of Gaylord for discrimination. Fred Szczepanski, employed by ...

were gifted to the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia for their retirement home, Assisi House in Aston, by a visiting priest. Since then, the elder sisters have cherished their feathered ...