The altar servers at St. Clare/St. Paul School in Scranton are, from left, front row: Griffin Maynor, Joseph Haggerty, Anna ...

After their church closed in 2024, some members of St. Clare Catholic Church in Essex are trying to save their community – ...

West End Fire & Rescue started with a hand-me-down 1917 American LaFrance fire engine previously used by Citizens Fire ...

From her Morris County convent, Sister Monica Clare schools 215,000 followers on spirituality and skin care. How the #NunTok star got her start.

Approximately 35 Poor Clare Sisters from across the United States have come together on the campus of St. Bonaventure University for a 10-day assembly focusing on their life and mission in the church.

Eighth-graders from Our Lady of Hope Regional School, Blackwood, enjoy the Daddy-Daughter Dance in April. (Courtesy photos) ...

When Jorge Mario Bergoglio became pope in 2013, he chose a name no pontiff had ever taken: Francis. It was inspired by St Francis of Assisi - the saint of the poor, the humble and the earth.

Upon his ascension to the papacy, the late pontiff chose the name Francis in honour of St. Francis of Assisi, a 13th-century saint known for his poverty, humility, and peace advocacy.

A votive statue of Italy’s patron saint, St. Francis of Assisi, left, ... Across town is the Basilica di Santa Chiara, dedicated to St. Clare, who embraced radical poverty to imitate St. Francis.

ASSISI, Italy (AP) — Pilgrims have been pouring into this medieval hilltop town to venerate not only two of the Catholic Church’s most celebrated saints, Francis and Clare, but its newest ...

Crowds flock to newest Catholic saint in Assisi — a millennial teen whose ordinariness is the draw “St. Francis, St. Clare, of course, important saints who marked an epoch – but that’s far ...