St. Francis of Assisi School identified the teacher injured in the crash as Amy Travers and asked people to pray for her ...

When Martin Scorsese was a child growing up in New York City in the 1940s and 50s, he spent a few years serving as an altar ...

During his homily and Angelus address, the Holy Father repeated his plea for Catholics to show their closeness to the poor ...

Panaji: Against the backdrop of the Exposition of the relics of St Francis Xavier, the Catholic Connect app of the Catholic ...

A member of the Franciscan Sisters Of The Renewal prays in Saint Nicholas of Tolentine Church in Atlantic City. (File ...

Even "eco-nuns." Throughout America -- and indeed, the world -- thousands of religious sisters are daily witnessing to the environmental care commitment urged by Pope Francis' 2015 encyclical, ...

On Nov. 11, 1969, Veterans Day, Cardinal Richard Cushing dedicated St. Francis Chapel located within the Prudential Center in Boston. Its origins might be traced to the 1947 arrival of the Franciscan ...

The devotion then developed in the Middle Ages through many mystical writers, especially Saint Bernard of Clairvaux ... but it seems that Pope Francis wants to summarize the spirit of his ...

VATICAN— During his Angelus address Sunday, Pope Francis asked his listeners to consider the qualities necessary for good leadership. “Brothers and ...

The two sisters often lived in different convents and took vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. Each sister served as ...

Before concluding his Wednesday audience and imparting his paternal blessing for pilgrims, the Holy Father concluded his ...

At the general audience, the pontiff continued the cycle of catechesis on the Holy Spirit and his ‘bride’, the Church. The ...