The Vatican says leaked documents that seemingly undermined Pope Francis’ stated reason for restricting the old Latin Mass ...

Cardinal Luis Pascual Dri, the Argentine priest whom Pope Francis held up as the model confessor, has died in Buenos Aires at age 98, the Vatican said Wednesday.

Going to Catholic school, we all knew our patron saints. Mine happened to be St. Francis of Assisi. Even at a young age, I thought it was a good fit due to my Italian heritage and my love and ...

Pope Francis took his name from Saint Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of ecology and animals — values that became cornerstones of his papacy. "In 2015, he wrote the encyclical 'Laudato Si.' ...

In 1228, just two years after his death, Pope Gregory IX officially canonised St Francis of Assisi as a saint. Francis was declared the patron saint of animals and ecology due to his deep love for ...

St. Francis of Assisi, born Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone around 1181 or 1182 in Assisi, Italy, is a prominent figure among Catholics. He was a renowned Italian mystic and poet who renounced ...

In 1182, St. Francis was born to a wealthy family in Assisi, which rises above a fertile valley in central Italy. Praying in front of a crucifix, he is said to have heard a call to reform the church.

When he was elected in 2013, Pope Francis said he chose his name in honor of St. Francis of Assisi, the 13th-century Italian friar who renounced his wealth to become "a man of peace, a man of ...

The life of Francis of Assisi is depicted in the first episode of the second installment of "Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints,' streaming exclusively on Fox Nation.

PUBLISHED: March 19, 2025 at 7:45 AM EDT The walls are good. Six months after a fire ripped through the classrooms of St. Francis of Assisi elementary school in Springfield, reconstruction has begun.

There’s a social media meme asking, “who is the patron saint of group emails?” The answer is, of course, “Francis of a CC”. Even people with no religious background get the joke.