A white rose is placed on the tomb of Pope Francis inside St. Mary Major Basilica in Rome, Monday, April 28, 2025. (AP ...

Hundreds of thousands of mourners — monarchs and presidents, cardinals and sisters, Jubilee pilgrims and tourists — turned ...

Pope Francis presides over a Rosary prayer for peace on Oct. 6, 2024, in the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome. The prayer ...

By Marissa Armas Click here for updates on this story North Texas (KTVT) — F.C. Ziegler Co.- Catholic Art & gifts is seeing dozens of parishioners stop by their stores to buy any and everything pope ...

As the sun was setting on Monday evening, the Vatican held a Rosary prayer in St. Peter’s ... handing them strict rules to apply. St. Francis of Assisi as a model Francis lived in the Vatican ...

When Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was anointed as the Pope, he chose to rename himself as Francis after St. Francis of Assisi, the medieval saint who founded the Franciscans, one of the largest ...

Pope Francis, a transformative figure who passed away at 88, leaves behind a legacy of reshaping the Catholic Church with inclusivity and compassion. His papacy challenged traditional dogma by ...

March 13, 2013: Elected 266th pope, the first from the Americas, the first Jesuit and the first to take the name Francis, after St. Francis of Assisi. “It cannot be tolerated. When there is a ...

just in the same spirit and fashion of St. Francis of Assisi, whose name Pope Francis took," Gonzalez said. The Rev. William Cavins, auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of St John XXIII, said in part ...

Church bells tolled in honor of Francis, from the recently reopened Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris to a lone bell at the St. Bartholomew ... truly hope that his prayers for peace in the Middle ...

He chooses the name Francis in reference to Francis of Assisi, patron saint of the poor ... “Urbi et Orbi” address alone in a deserted St Peter’s Square. – October 21, 2020: In ...