At first blush, this spectacle appears to be another example of Mediterranean popular religiosity and its fascination with ...

Pope Leo XIV on Friday set Sept. 7 as the rescheduled date to canonize the Catholic Church's first millennial-era saint Carlo ...

Carlo Acutis, who died in 2006 after being diagnosed with leukemia, will one of the first people canonized by Pope Leo XIV ...

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The curly haired Italian kid could not have known at the time that he would become the first millennial saint who would ...

The KL South District Bible Knowledge Seminar 2025, held at the Church of St Francis of Assisi, was a day marked by grace, ...

ROME -- Pope Leo XIV on Friday set Sept. 7 as the rescheduled date to canonize the Catholic Church’s first millennial-era ...

AN unspoiled oasis in the heart of Italy, Umbria offers a serene escape for Scottish travellers into a landscape rich with medieval towns, ...

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 ... If we set aside our modern biases and 800 ...

To the world’s media he was a “people’s pope”, the very model of a modern man of faith who ... to the thirteenth-century mystic Francis of Assisi. Saint Francis had already inspired ...

Pope Francis died at his residence in the Vatican's Casa Santa Marta. When Jorge Mario Bergoglio became pope in 2013, he chose a name no pontiff had ever taken: Francis. It was inspired by St ...

the late pontiff chose the name Francis in honour of St. Francis of Assisi, a 13th-century saint known for his poverty, humility, and peace advocacy. This choice was unique, as no other pontiff ...