On Aug. 11, the Catholic Church celebrates St. Clare of Assisi, one of the most beloved saints of the Middle Ages. Best known as the founder of the Poor Clares and a close friend of St. Francis of ...

Oct. 3 will mark 800 years since the death of St. Francis of Assisi. To celebrate this momentous occasion, Pope Leo XIV has ...

Pope Leo’s letter to Cardinal Roche is the latest in a series of moves he has made this summer to affirm the reforms of the ...

Behind a modern hospital in Rome’s Trastevere region stands the remains of a nearly-800-year-old monastery that once housed Franciscan nuns.

Unlike the pre-Easter lent period, there will be no chocolate eggs to look forward to at the end of this one!

Three Arkansas parishes celebrate the Jubilee Year of St. Francis with pilgrimages, special Masses and community festivals.

St. Clare of Assisi on the colonnade of saints at the Vatican. | Credit: Nick_Nick/Shutterstock By Francesca Pollio ...

Chris Keenan, O.F.M., with members of the F.D.N.Y. in New York Credit: Octavio Duran On Sept. 15, 2001, thousands of people gathered to mourn Mychal Judge, O.F.M., the beloved chaplain to the Fire ...

The Feast of Creation in Christ names our need to celebrate God’s saving work in creation,” says liturgical theologian ...

Mass psychogenic illness -- the real, peer-reviewed phenomenon behind mass hysteria -- has six centuries of case records in ...

The Seraphic Sisters’ story connects two nursing homes with San Antonio’s largely forgotten Polish Quarter and the communities still carrying that heritage forward.

In the summer of 1997, Greg Tufaro was writing a preview of the high school football season for the Home News Tribune and he ...