Feb. 23: Annual African Tea fundraiser at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Breaux Bridge with the Drexel Society at 2pm CT. Feb. 25: Annual Thomas Merton Lecture at Bellarmine University ...

A court has cleared the way for the Roman Catholic ... church attendance, priest scarcity and more factors prompted a local committee to recommend closing St. Alphonsus, St. Francis of Assisi ...

Mr. Grady, a Third Order Franciscan, sought to emulate St. Francis of Assisi’s lifelong fidelity to the Gospel by living simply and being a channel of the Lord’s peace through engaging in good work ...

HEATH − St. Leonard Catholic Church ... assumed by the parish of St. Francis de Sales,” Fernandes wrote in his decree of extinctive union. “The parish church of St. Leonard retains its ...

They also remind visitors that the church is active and to be respectful of services. The Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi and its gift shop are open to the public Tuesday through ...

Speaking to Catholic pilgrims from Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland on Feb. 3, the pope shared a special message ...

Venerated in his lifetime, Saint Francis did not have to wait long for a monument to be erected in his honor. A basilica in ...

Pope Francis said Monday ... for the Church in your lands, while small, is growing in numbers.” Despite a high level of secularization, the Catholic Church in the Nordic countries continues ...

Only one other pope in history, of the all 260+ who have sat on St Peter’s throne, had retired. If Francis had also ... that could have changed the Catholic church profoundly.

Can Hope, his autobiographical meditations on migration, sexuality and war, assuage a Catholic church in crisis ... numbers of migrants from Italy and some from the Middle East. Pope Francis’s ...

a statue of St. Francis of Assisi remained completely intact “I do think there is a spiritual significance,” 5th grade teacher Blair Manzke tells PEOPLE The Pasadena Waldorf School was ...