Desperate to impoverish himself, he tries to donate a large amount of his father’s money to a local church; the priest, ...

The custos serves as a unique provincial minister within the Franciscan order, leading a community of friars while also being ...

in the cross-fade. And sometimes, sometimes, this can be quite useful. When you meet a guy, for example, like Francis of Assisi. Genius or crackpot? Both. Sensuous embracer of life or self ...

Jesus told him ... malcontents jeered, and his cross was stolen in — of all places — Assisi, Italy, where St. Francis had once lived. “Some people see me and shout, ‘You’re a nut!’” ...

Simone Martini, “Christ on the Cross ... of gold. St. Dominic (1170–1221), portrayed in the iconic Duccio triptych on loan from London’s National Gallery, and St. Francis (1181–1226 ...

Plagued by poor health, overwhelmed by revelations of paedophilia and graft in the Catholic Church, the German pontiff could no longer bear his cross ... forward to 2025. Francis, now eighty-eight, ...

Earlier in the day Pope Francis appointed then-Bishop Vásquez ... motto is “Sigueme,” Spanish for “Follow me,” in reference to Jesus’ words to Peter in the Gospel of St. John. Pope Benedict appointed ...

Some of Maaloula's residents still communicate in Aramaic, the language spoken by Jesus Christ, and the village's name means ... Inaugurated in February 2023, the cube-shaped St. Francis Church, ...

Pope Francis emphasized how Jesus Christ reveals the ultimate criterion by which all history is judged: love. “Whoever loves lives, whoever hates dies,” the pope told pilgrims gathered in St ...

The Christian misfits did not lead comfortable lives. For this reason, among others, they tended to make others uncomfortable ...