Pope Francis honors St. Francis of Assisi's legacy of peace, poverty, and respect for creation in Assisi, Italy.

When Jorge Mario Bergoglio became pope in 2013, he chose a name no pontiff had ever taken: Francis. It was inspired by St ...

Assisi has long been a place of pilgrimage, but these days the faithful come not for Saint Francis but for a tech-savvy teen ...

ASSISI, Italy (AP) — Pilgrims have been pouring into this medieval hilltop town to venerate not only two of the Catholic Church’s most celebrated saints, Francis and Clare, but its newest ... by the ...

Dubbed “God’s Influencer” or the “Cyber Apostle”, he spent much of his short life ... bishop of Assisi, author of a book on the links between Carlo, Francis and Saint Clare of Assisi ...

Without an experience of the resurrection in their lives, the signs worked by St. Francis of Assisi and others couldn't have ...

The late Pope Francis was known as “the people’s pope.” But for Rob Forney, he was more than that. He was the reason why he ...

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More than a million faithful Catholics have been flocking to St. Mary Major Church in Assisi, Italy ... to the saint and during his short life often helped those less fortunate.