The Jubilee Year of Hope, observed from December 2024 through December 2025, is drawing Catholic pilgrims from around the ...

When I first saw Giotto’s fresco cycle “The Legend of St. Francis” in the upper church of the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi—a small Italian town two hours from Rome by train—I ...

Believe it or not one of the Catholic Church’s newest saints is to be a millennial computer programmer. Carlo Acutis was born ...

Chris Packham has posed as St Francis of Assisi in a portrait celebrating him as a “living saint”. The portrait of the presenter and environmental campaigner is now on show on the altar of the ...

Truong, a lifelong Catholic, had hoped one day to spend Easter in Vatican City. That hope was fulfilled this spring, when he ...

The late Pope Francis donated all his remaining money to a youth rehabilitation project inside a Roman prison in one of his final acts as the head of the Roman Catholic Church. Before his death ...

When I first saw Giotto’s fresco cycle “The Legend of St. Francis” in the upper church of the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi—a small ... covers his naked body with a cloth.

The saint’s remains were returned to the silver case placed at the center of the altarpiece of the Basilica of the ...

The feast of St. Rita of Cascia, celebrated May 22, reminds us of the healing power of prayer, penance and forgiveness — and her spiritual kinship with Pope Leo XIV, the Church’s new Augustinian pope.

selecting the pontifical name "Francis" after St. Francis of Assisi, a choice that set the tone for the rest of his papacy. Fox News' Caitlin McFall, Emma Colton and Chris Massaro contributed ...

Holy Virgin Mary, there is none like you among women born in the world. Daughter and handmaid of the heavenly Father, the almighty King, Mother of our most high Lord Jesus Christ, and Spouse of ...