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

Pilgrims have been pouring into this medieval hilltop town to venerate not only two of the Catholic Church's most celebrated ...

ASTON — The world premiere of “No Risk, No Gain: The Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia ... She even took a brief trip to Assisi, Italy, during the film project. She amassed 4,000 ...

Pilgrims have been pouring into this medieval hilltop town to venerate not only two of the Catholic Church’s most celebrated ...

Assisi, the medieval Italian town revered as the home of Saints Francis and Clare, is experiencing a new wave of pilgrim fervour. The focus of this burgeoning devotion? Carlo Acutis, a millennial ...

An image of Carlo Acutis, who died of leukaemia in 2006, is seen during his beatification ceremony (Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved) From ...

It was concerning: The damage was significant with lateral cracks into the steeple and choir loft,” said Rev. Michael Casey, leader of the St. Francis Assisi parish, which now encompasses St. Peter.

Assisi House at Navan Road ... the order is a group of lay people inspired by the mission of St Francis to help the poor. The secular group is also known as the Third Franciscan Order and is ...

A statue of St. Francis of Assisi and a wolf is seen May 30, 2015, in the town of Gubbio, Italy. (CNS/Octavio Duran) However, the conflict between wolves and farmers is not a simple matter of ...

St Francis has been the subject of countless previous biographies and reflections, not least Chesterton’s Saint Francis of Assisi (1923), an exuberant book even by Chesterton’s playful standards.

Few individuals in church history have straddled the fault line between insider and outsider quite so capably as Francis of Assisi – a reality that lies at the heart of Volker Leppin’s evenly ...