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 ...

Season 7 star Ashley Adionser announced in a Tuesday statement to People, which was obtained by USA TODAY Wednesday, that she and her husband Tyler Francis "have been separated for several weeks ...

A relic of Saint Francis of Assisi’s blood will be carried to the Holy Land September 30-October 5 as Franciscan friars and laypeople embark on a pilgrimage to promote peace and unity in the ...

Pope Francis is taking the ... to dissolve or suppress a Catholic religious community is rare and in the Sodalitium’s case follows attempts by the church hierarchy to reform the group and ...

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 ...

The Jan. 20 meeting took place in the Vatican Apostolic Palace and was attended by the head of the Finnish Orthodox Church, Archbishop Elia of Helsinki, as well as Catholic Bishop Raimo Goyarrola ...

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis has dissolved a Catholic religious community with members across ... Francis has made addressing sexual abuse in the Church a priority of his 12-year-old papacy, with mixed ...

VATICAN CITY — Bishop Athanasius Schneider said Pope Francis “showed ... viewing them as an attack on Catholic tradition and a source of division within the Church. Last year, he opposed ...

saying such policies were “incompatible with Catholic doctrine.” It was a reference to the biblical call to “welcome the stranger.” Another cardinal close to Francis, Chicago’s Blase ...