The Norwich Secular Franciscans are preparing a special celebration of St Francis’s departure from this earthly world to his heavenly home 800 years ago.

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

A group of Franciscan Christians are walking hundreds of miles across England this summer as part of a peace pilgrimage commemorating 800 years since the passing of St Francis of Assisi. Organised by ...

A peace pilgrimage honouring the death of an Italian friar is making its way through York.

The following is the full text of Pope Leo XIV’s Angelus address given Aug. 2, the feast of the Baptism of the Lord, at St.

Speaking in Spanish to the faithful gathered for the Angelus, the pontiff expressed concern about the migrant crisis in the ...

Pope Leo XIV has named two American bishops as members of the Vatican's highest court, the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura. The bishops, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileo ...

Salvatore Cordileone, who barred Nancy Pelosi from Holy Communion over abortion rights, now joins the Vatican's highest court ...

ROME (OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV has named two American bishops as members of the Vatican’s highest court, the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura. The bishops, Archbishop Salvatore J.

A file photo shows a replica of the Portiuncula chapel next to the Memorial Church of the Holy Sepulcher at the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in Washington. The original chapel in Assisi, ...

SIOUX CITY -- Briar Cliff University will honor Saint Francis of Assisi at 9 p.m. Sunday with "Transitus," a prayer-vigil commemorating the final moments of his life and his passing in 1226. Transitus ...