Jorge Mario Bergoglio became a pope of many firsts: the first modern pope from outside Europe, the first whose papal name ...

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

Seeing the wolf's sorrow, Francis proposed a solution. In exchange for peace, the people of Gubbio would feed the wolf and ... A statue of St. Francis of Assisi and a wolf is seen May 30, 2015 ...

The changes Francis brought to the papacy were more than skin deep. He opened the church to the outside world in ways none of ...

ASTON — About seven years ago, Francis and Clare, a pair of budgie parakeets, were gifted to the Sisters of St. Francis ... to the library at Assisi House, where the birds reside in a spacious ...

The the 266th head of the Catholic Church died the day after Easter and one month since his release from the hospital with a ...