To all, Francis offers a message of mercy. It is a message that has won him both praise and criticism.

The University of Alabama and St. Francis of Assisi Catholic are mourning the loss of a student who made his mark in his short life.

Pope Francis has visited Rome’s main prison and kept an Easter season appointment to spend Holy Thursday among the least ...

GREENWICH, CT, UNITED STATES, April 7, 2025 /EINPresswire / -- Eight hundred (800) years after its composition by Saint Francis of Assisi , the Canticle of the Creatures – often also called the ...

The cultural legacy of Brother Francis ... the St. Francis Day Foundation, Inc., established under the auspices of the Holy Father, aimed at disseminating the teachings of the Saint of Assisi ...

For centuries, pilgrims came to Assisi to walk in the footsteps of a saint who preached to birds, embraced poverty and wandered the hills barefoot.But today, many arrive in search of a different model ...

In a moving homily read by Archbishop Rino Fisichella, the pontiff described how suffering can become “a place of encounter” ...