Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims have been pouring into the medieval hilltop town of Assisi in Italy to venerate the ...

Carlo Acutis will become the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint at a solemn canonization Mass on April 27 in St.

For Assisi’s current bishop, the Rev. Domenico Sorrentino, St. Francis’ renunciation of material encumbrances ... they marked a turning point in Western art. Their realism and careful rendering of ...

The legend of St. Francis of Assisi and Brother Wolf tells a story not of taming a wild creature, but of cooperation and ...

That denial of privilege is a parallel with St. Francis, to whom Carlo was so devoted that he asked to be buried in Assisi, said the Rev. Enzo Fortunato, who spent most of his religious career ...