A 16th-century Florentine noblewoman, Lisa Gherardini was the wife of a successful silk merchant named Francesco del Giocondo ...

Not so fast, Leppin warns. These punctuated elements don’t get us to the real Francis, he argues, just as a laundry list of dates, relationships, friendships, and basic professional achievements ...

In a profound reflection delivered during Sunday’s Angelus prayer, Pope Francis emphasized how Jesus ... Does my heart desire to see the face of the Lord?” He then invited all to pray together ...

President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom with distinction, the nation's highest civilian honor, to Pope Francis on Saturday. The medal was scheduled to be presented to the ...

Queen Rania of Jordan made a trip to Italy on Monday for the World’s Summit on Children’s Rights at the Vatican. The royal ...

“Hope is the mainstay that undergirds Pope Francis’ entire life and is the thread that holds together this long narrative, even in the pages in which he recounts true horrors,” commented ...

Pope Francis recently said that "fake news" was the root cause of the assassination attempts against President-elect Donald Trump last year. The Catholic News Agency reported on the pontiff’s ...

The comedian’s controversial animal print-wearing character was born on Francis’ Channel 4 series Bo’ Selecta, which ran from 2002 to 2009. Singer Craig David previously accused the ...

The Francis College of Engineering has been recognized as exemplar and with a Bronze Award for the inaugural ASEE Diversity Recognition Program. The ASEE Diversity Recognition Program (ADRP) was ...

President Biden honored Pope Francis with the Presidential Medal of Freedom with distinction, the highest civilian award given by the president, on Saturday, saying the pontiff was a "light of ...

One of Pope Francis’ lasting reforms will be his reshaping of the papacy to embrace simplicity and humility, as seen in his decisions to live in a Vatican guesthouse and carry his own briefcase ...